I mean it is very suspicious that the dual party system held up for such as long time, because previously parties came and went. Other countries with FPTP are able to maintain a pluripartisan makeup, making and breaking coalitions as needed.
the only other one of note (tmk) is the UK, and that coalitioning is most likely due to how much more overall representation they actualy have.
last i looked it up, the UK has something like 150k or less pop/seat?
the US is nearing 1m/seat, with the senate thrown on top which by itself gives 2/3rds of national power to <1/3rd of the population. Canvassing to 1m people just isnt fiscally/time viable for the kind of people who would actually do more than just abuse their position for $/power.
it should be noted, the legislation passed capping House seats in the US was created specifically to hamstring growing progressive/anti-establishment voices in the cities, back in the 20’s.
every single time the US government has had a chance at reforming it’s broken government the powers that be have chosen instead to entrench themselves further…now there are entire states that arguably shouldn’t even have 1 House seat
Exactly - the rich have two parties, we have none.
The importance of the dems in sabotaging our attempts to combat the predation of the rich is pretty clear these days as they prioritize losing to fascism over embracing a single progressive policy.
At this point, the bar for Democrats has been set so low, any fucking policy would be better! It doesn’t even have to be progressive, just do fucking something. Anything!
Stop helping the corporate technocracy implement digital fascism.
The irony of posting this in a sub that literally doesn’t allow any opposing viewpoints to this position.
It’s a Lemmy rite of passage to get burned by LW “moderation”
At least it hasn’t descended to Reddit levels of mod abuse. Yet.
I believe it’s þe nature of volunteer moderated systems to attract megalomaniacs. Þe Threadiverse’s defense is, unlike Reddit, if you don’t like lemmy.world’s moderation, odds are good you can find a good alternative community wiþ better moderation on a different server.
The only viewpoints opposed around here are viewpoints that uphold the status quo and the oppressive systems that defend it
Na, und? No viewpoint different from your’s is allowed?
