Are you okay with the idea of a one party rule for the US? If so, state your reasoning. If not, state your reasoning.
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Not OK at all. In fact I don't like it when we have House and Senate and presidency all of one party even for two years. I would rather have a mix, so that any progress be the result of actual compromise.Are you okay with the idea of a one party rule for the US? If so, state your reasoning. If not, state your reasoning.
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By "one party rule" do you mean a political system where there is only one political party and it occupies all political offices?Are you okay with the idea of a one party rule for the US? If so, state your reasoning. If not, state your reasoning.
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We have lost any 'centrist' parties as we once had. Now we have leftist swamp dwellers and right wing swamp dwellers.When the two major parties are polarized to the degree we’ve seen over the last dozen or so years what we have, (in effect) is One Big Party with Extreme Left and Right wings.
There is no palaver going on in the middle; both sides have their own news sources, we don’t even agree on what constitutes our “facts”.
No, of course not. Contrary to Trumpers, I believe in democracy. There has to be checks and balances.Are you okay with the idea of a one party rule for the US? If so, state your reasoning. If not, state your reasoning. Discuss....
It's impossible to have one party rule. There is too much disagreement about how to govern.
Can you clarify what you mean by "one party rule"? Are we talking a case where there is literally only one party present, or a 'dominant-party' system in which there are multiple parties but one party is in perpetual power (e.g. Democrats in Hawaii)? Is it 'one-party' by virtue of law--which would be dictatorial--or simply because that party's policies are popular enough that people vote them into power repeatedly?Are you okay with the idea of a one party rule for the US? If so, state your reasoning. If not, state your reasoning.
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I find it highly amusing when some American calls the current Democratic Party "far left".
Your whole system has drifted so far to the right that even a slightly right-of-center figure like Joe Biden can be portrayed as the reincarnation of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong.
The Republicans just lost 50 legal cases trying to ensure one party rule, something going by your previous posts you demonstrably support. So why do you support one party rule?Are you okay with the idea of a one party rule for the US? If so, state your reasoning. If not, state your reasoning.
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I find it highly amusing when some American calls the current Democratic Party "far left".
Your whole system has drifted so far to the right that even a slightly right-of-center figure like Joe Biden can be portrayed as the reincarnation of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong.
I agree with most of what you wrote but have 3 observations:I'd argue that some of the polarizing backlash we see going back & forth in our own country is the result of having only two parties instead having more breadth of options. When you only have "two sides", people tend to vote against the worst of the "other side". And politicians (who may not be all that close to other ideologically) are saddled with every little bit of baggage that someone else has simply by having the same (R/D) after their name.
Given the size and diversity of our nation, only having two parties (and expecting that to be adequate in terms of choice of representation) is far-fetched when you look at what some other nations are doing.
If one party holds the presidency and both houses of Congress and uses that power to alter all the laws relating to elections, it can easily create a one-party state except for the "going through the motions" that even the most dictatorial governments in other countries allow. But as for a real multi-party system, no. We seem to be close to this in the United States right now.It's impossible to have one party rule. There is too much disagreement about how to govern.
1) In the US, there are already more than 2 political parties. In addition to Biden and Trump, in the last presidential elections there were candidates of the Libertarian and the Green parties.
2) The first-past-the-post voting system used in most elections in the US, Canada, and the UK effectively results in a 2 major-party system, even though there exists other parties of different electoral sizes. In Germany and Scandinavia they use different voting systems.
3) The fact that there are only 2 major parties in the US does not mean there are only 2 political currents. For example, under Trump, the GOP moved from the center-right to the far-right. But both currents still exist in the party. Similarly, the Democratic Party has center-left and a far-left wings. Under Biden, the center-left wing is in control.
In regard to the UK the house of commons is a better representative, the house of Lords(which I think your graph shows) is unelected.We technically have more than two, but how many are represented in House/Senate? Justin Amash was a Libertarian House Rep, and when Sanders runs for senate he does so as Independent, but identified as Democratic when running for president.
But even Canada and UK (much smaller nations than we are) even with similar voting systems, still have more diversity in their legislative branch than we do.
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AV/Runoff is definitely a better system for having more diverse representation, however, as UK and Canada show, FPTP doesn't always have to equate to a total two-party monopoly at all levels of government.
The point I was touching on is that due to the fact that there's only two political parties (which means you end up sharing the baggage with everyone else who has the same letter after their name), something another person (who just happens to be on the same side of the bisecting line) does/says/etc... can impact another person from that same party 5 states away. Sort of an unfair "guilt by association" effect. Democrats lost seats in the house due to things democrats in other states were saying and pushing for. Republican governors (who may not share that much overlap with Trump & McConnell) get the brunt of voters who are out to spite-vote against anyone with an (R) after their name.
Even if there were 4 parties (FarLeft/CenterLeft/CenterRight/FarRight), that would at least allow moderates to distance themselves from the more extreme people who could end up sabotaging them and stirring up resentment against anyone who happens to exist under the same banner.