Lee Drutman uses political science research to show persuasively that the current polarization in the United States is caused by our two-party system. See his FiveThirtyEight.com article here. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Too many brain dead polisci, legal, history *experts* folks to count about —
PR legis
APPV exec/judic
TOTSOP
And the two-party system is caused by plurality voting, the ultimate culprit.
Remember the motto of Maine: “Dirigo” i.e. “I direct”
Maine is pointing the way with ranked choice voting.
538?
538 = TOTAL 12 Amdt Prez electors — MONARCH fixation in Devil city.
The website. It’s commies.
We had plurality voting and a two party system in 1980, when the graphs in that article show less polarization and a stronger commitment among Republicans to a liberal system.
I did not take the author to say that plurality voting and a two party system by themselves have caused the problem, but rather that combined with other trends they have created a poisonous and explosive mixture, vis a vis other countries which have those same trends at work but also have a more proportional system, stronger multipartisanism, etc.
The polarization in this country is likely a result of the Democrat Party cheating and stealing elections through an inflation of the number of votes they received. As a result Democrats are overrepresented in government creating a great chasm between the actual popular mandate and the perceived popular mandate. This disconnect enables extreme polarization.
See https://www.publishedreporter.com/2021/06/21/attorney-states-will-decertify-2020-election-results-in-aftermath-of-election-audits-says-reinstatement-of-trump-is-possible/
It seems more likely than not that states will begin decertifying election results after fraud is uncovered in the Arizona audit (the first domino). The fight will likely conclude with a lawsuit and the Supreme Court restoring Trump as president and reversing everything the pretender Biden has done in the office.
LOL
Immediate at stake — about 15-30 pct of GDP —
controlled by bare half of Devil City Congress gerrymander hacks — 218 Reps + 50/51 Sens
of mere 330,000,000.
Do the ratio math.
How soon before *just enough* foreign folks detect TOTAL banana republik mess in USA and demand $$$ on their loans —
NOOO re-cycle them ???
See Germany 1923 hyper-inflation ROT –
total econ destruction of lower/middle classes >>> Hitler in 1933-1945.
They have too much at stake with the money they have parked in the US, their elite’s kids in US ivy league colleges, the market for their goods that US consumers supply, etc.
Some things to think about this day:
Matt Walsh:
“There will never be unity. One side of the divide thinks that children should go to drag shows, women have penises, infanticide is good, and all wh!te people are racist. There’s no common ground between us. I despise their worldview and have no respect for those who ascribe to it”
Matt Walsh:
“[George Floyd] achieved literally not one single thing of significance in his life. He was a danger to his community, an addict, a thief, and an abuser of women. We only know his name because of how he died. Only the sickest and dumbest of societies would honor a man like this.”
Matt Walsh:
“We are told that wh!tes carry special guilt for slavery, and yet non-wh!te countries had slavery for years and years after it had been abolished all across the west. Slavery was still a legal practice in Africa as recently as 1980.”
Matt Walsh:
“This land was conquered just like all populated land on Earth. And thank God that it was. Our civilization is far superior to what came before it.”
“We had plurality voting and a two party system in 1980, when the graphs in that article show less polarization and a stronger commitment among Republicans to a liberal system”
Reagan won with clear majorities in both 1980, and 1984. He would have done so under just about any method of voting used. He was the last President of either party to win by a popular landslide, by any definition of that term.
Since then the popular votes have been evenly divided between both Democrats and Republicans, with 3rd parties in several of those elections (1992, 1996, 2000, 2016, and 2020) having a decisive effect on the outcome of the Presidential election. Plurality voting in these close elections is fueling polarization.