I have been a third party voter since 1984....I was a Dem in 1976 and 1980 but then I could not vote for the nominees in good conscience......so I looked for an alternative and have continued that search every since.....why? I believe the two party system has f*cked up American democracy to the point if may not be repaired.
The popular thing to do is blame Trump for this decline....although he has not helped American pursuit of democracy the slow death is not all his fault.
Fivethirtyeight can explain it much better than me....
As the "Big Lie" of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous election audits, aspiring candidates embrace the fiction of a stolen 2020 election, and a majority of GOP voters still believe Trump is the "true president," the obvious questions follow: Where is this all headed? And is there any way out?
In one telling, the Republican Party will eventually come back to its senses and move past former President Donald Trump and Trumpist grievance politics, especially if Republicans lose a few elections in a row and realize that it's a losing strategy. But there's another possible outcome: More contested elections, more violence and, ultimately, a collapse into competitive authoritarianism enabled by electoral advantages that tilt in one party's favor.
Trump and his particular style of party leadership are easy and obvious targets to blame for the decline of American democracy, as well as the Republican Party's increasing illiberalism. But if Trump was transformative, the more important question is: Why was he able to succeed in the first place?
The most compelling theory based on historical patterns of democratic decline is that hyper-polarization cracked the foundations of American democracy, creating the conditions under which a party could break democratic norms with impunity, because winning in the short term became more important than maintaining democracy for the long term.
Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy
2024 brings us to the "Not Trump" election where voters are asked to hold their nose an vote against Trump.
Sorry I cannot do that so I will once again search for a third party that I find less objectionable....and then I can be blamed if Biden loses.
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"lego ergo scribo"
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