Malcolm wrote:
1) It's a quite rigged two-party system.
2) #1 is a product of the vast majority of the voting public being as shortsighted, selfish, and stupid.
Actually, #1 is an inevitable consequence of our particular voting system. Think of it like a game and apply game theory. Any system like ours will eventually devolve into two parties which are both the only options available because voters are urged to never waste their vote on third-party candidates or the other guys they hate will win. It's in the best interest of the parties to cultivate a rabid base of voters they can count on for every election, which requires the party to permanently embrace some extreme viewpoints. The other party must do the same with other counter viewpoints. But both parties will still do anything and everything that the outsiders with money want them to do because they want those sweet sweet dollars. They can get away with selling out like this because there are no third-party candidates available to voters that don't do it. And so it goes.
It can only get more extreme over time. The only way to fix it is to
change the voting system. Which of course would require the approval of the two main parties so that cannot happen.
We are doomed to our elections becoming more and more like Reality TV shows over time, until public interest and voter turnout have faded to almost nothing along with the power and importance of governments altogether. The era of government power is at the beginning of the end.
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