Comment by pousada
3 days ago
What I never understood is this binary system in the US - why wouldn’t you allow some other parties or reform the system in a way that allows more diversity.
But it’s of course a hellishly complex problem
3 days ago
What I never understood is this binary system in the US - why wouldn’t you allow some other parties or reform the system in a way that allows more diversity.
But it’s of course a hellishly complex problem
pousada, I've simmered on your response for several days now. As a person in their late sixties, I've seen our political system, at least in my existence, at most of it's worst. Nixon taught us, in modern times, what evil looks like behind closed doors, because of the tapes. Reagan taught us what smiley faced racism looked like by using slogans. W taught us that lying to everyone on camera was no big deal as long as it seemed patriotic. And now here we are with a president who openly breaks the law because of however he feels on any given day.
On the seemingly rare occasions that a democrat gets into the oval office, they spend most of their time on social/environmental issues that extend to all voters, but are fought at every turn. We desperately need a reformed political system. The only way that will happen is if the American voting public will get off their cans and put forth the effort to learn civics and then realize that their opinions must be tempered with reason.