The American Politics Thread

King of Loss wrote: npjnpj wrote: True, but still undemocratic either way. I don't think having a two party system is remotely democratic...

We do have more parties and I vote for them often, if others did the same that would end the "two party system". Its the American voters fault that we seem to have only two parties.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Man With Hat wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I think all votes matter in the presidential election regardless of location.   It doesn't really. Aside from the fact that it's mostly a 5-8 swing state race for the electoral college, if you vote red and your state goes blue, your vote counts as much as the idiots who voted for Harambe in 2016.  Does everyone else agree with this?

Every vote matters. Even if your favorite candidate will lose, you don't want them to lose by a large margin because that will look like a mandate.
Statistics do matter and you can bet political operatives read them thoroughly.

It seems as though that countries with more than two party systems are still really only two parties when it comes down to it since in order to rule the different parties agree to caucus together to create a majority party in order to pass any laws.  It sometimes seems to make for strange bedfellows.  it does lead to more compromising of laws in order to make all parties happy.  There was once a time in our country when our two parties were willing to compromise in order to pass laws that made both parties happy or at least less angry, but those days seem to be long gone. 

rushfan4 wrote: It seems as though that countries with more than two party systems are still really only two parties when it comes down to it since in order to rule the different parties agree to caucus together to create a majority party in order to pass any laws.  It sometimes seems to make for strange bedfellows.  it does lead to more compromising of laws in order to make all parties happy.  There was once a time in our country when our two parties were willing to compromise in order to pass laws that made both parties happy or at least less angry, but those days seem to be long gone.

Atavachron wrote: micky wrote: 2) Warren showed why she is skyrocketing up the polls and is my odds on favorite to win  the nomination.  More centrist than Bernie.. more progressive than Biden.. and a very engaging speaker who connects well with an audience. A rare trait for scholar/academic type. I was much more impressed by her this time than ever in the past.  She's gone from an unconvincing schoolmarm to a compelling presenter of ideas.

Yep, I was wondering what happened to you too. Good to see you are still around. 

Biden got burned tonight. I hope he's not the nominee... He's everything I despise about Third Way politics.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: King of Loss wrote: Biden got burned tonight. I hope he's not the nominee... He's everything I despise about Third Way politics. He still did better than Marianne Williamson.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Yep, I was wondering what happened to you too. Good to see you are still around.