The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

[Resnic]

There should be no parties at all.

You can't have 2 parties making decision for a country of millions when both parties are diametrically opposed to eachother. They care more about being right and being in control than they do about the country or it's people. The government is supposed to have the people as a whole (not groups or individuals) and the country as a whole as their best interest. They are supposed to support everything as a whole and not just their people or groups they want.

Congress should also be made up of people who are leaders from across the country. Head physicians, school super intendant's, fire chiefs, police chiefs, hospital director's, etc. People from around the country who actually know what's going on with the people.

And they should all be sworn to never let personal agendas, personal feelings, religions, or outside influence to effect their decisions.

 

[Votto]

There is nothing wrong with the two party system. The problem is stupid liberals allowed radicals to overthrow the common sense moderate Democrats. The two party systems when working properly, inherently creates a moderate and compromising government. Only when one side or the other takes a radical turn does a problem arise.

Really? So the "radicals" drove up a $30 trillion debt? It seems to me that the "moderates" did all that themselves.

LOL

No, the radicals have been in charge of government for a very long time and all because checks and balances vanished over the years as power was increased and collectivized over the years. The advent of the "crazies" from the Left are but the end symptoms of a nation that has been dying for a very long time.

 

[Votto]

There should be no parties at all.

You can't have 2 parties making decision for a country of millions when both parties are diametrically opposed to eachother. They care more about being right and being in control than they do about the country or it's people. The government is supposed to have the people as a whole (not groups or individuals) and the country as a whole as their best interest. They are supposed to support everything as a whole and not just their people or groups they want.

Congress should also be made up of people who are leaders from across the country. Head physicians, school super intendant's, fire chiefs, police chiefs, hospital director's, etc. People from around the country who actually know what's going on with the people.

And they should all be sworn to never let personal agendas, personal feelings, religions, or outside influence to effect their decisions.

States should be running their own affairs as the Federal government plays referee. That was the design.

The design has been usurped is all.

 

[Rogue AI]

There is nothing wrong with the two party system. The problem is stupid liberals allowed radicals to overthrow the common sense moderate Democrats. The two party systems when working properly, inherently creates a moderate and compromising government. Only when one side or the other takes a radical turn does a problem arise.

Really? So the "radicals" drove up a $30 trillion debt? It seems to me that the "moderates" did all that themselves.

LOL

No, the radicals have been in charge of government for a very long time and all because checks and balances vanished over the years as power was increased and collectivized over the years. The advent of the "crazies" from the Left are but the end symptoms of a nation that has been dying for a very long time.

The spending was a result of compromise by both sides, as intended. What you are seeing in recent years is not intended. Radical shifts to the left simply do not allow for moderates and conservatives to engage in compromise.

 

[whitehall]

There are no restrictions on the number of political parties. You can register as a Greenie or a Socialist or a Conservative or even a Communist if you want to waste a vote. Maybe the point is that the crazy left only wants a single party. Either way the issue is moot.

 

[22lcidw]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

To all Non Progs...do not die for a Prog broad. You ain't winning nothing and the West is pushing them to our destruction. Just live your lives as the law enforcement will support them as we see at School meetings with parents questioning the Crictical race theories and sexual ways of touching and transition in their children to another sex. Video of cops arresting people talking sense is there to see. They live for their fiefdom. Pay, Benefits and Pensions...Until they prove differently. Remember...the Progs want a nationalized police force.

 

[Seawytch]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

Republicans have given up governing.

 

[citygator]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

The issue is the media and the Progressive movements collectivization of power.

As we all know, power corrupts, except for Progressives. For Progressives, the problem is not enough centralized power to "get things done".

So what has happened over the years is, they have centralized all power to the Federal government, specifically the Executive Branch, so that the Executive Branch now makes pretty much all our decisions, ranging from what doctor we see and what school teacher teaches our children. It was never designed this way, and is why half the country wants to secede every Presidential election cycle.

And with such centralized power at the Federal level, all of our other institutions, such as the media, has taken over and corrupted them as well.

Make as many parties as you want, the issues will continue.

Irony lost out here. Thread is on hyper-partisanship and how it’s affecting democracy and you pull out a progressive rant that is the kind of rhetoric that justified Jan 6 which is ultimately a tremor of an upcoming democracy quake.

January 6th? So that changed everything did it? An unarmed woman shot dead and a Viking running round, eh?

Though it is true they were there illegally in the Capital, it just illustrates the disconnect democrats like yourself have with the country. Lawlessness is dealt with using brutal force as the name of the police officer is not given to the press and the officer is not even investigated. Meanwhile as the rest of the nation burns to the ground and looted any such attempt to maintain order is met with accusations of racism and police brutality as the police officer is trashed with death threats flowing in from people like Lebron.

You're an idiot.

Cities aren’t burning to the ground. Especially the ones not shooting unarmed citizens. Jan 6 was a good example of the illiberal Republicans throwing democracy out and trying to circumvent it. If it weren’t for a tiny percent of Republican leaders following the law wed have been in shambles. A country with a coup.

 

[citygator]

Brining up the two party system as the scapegoat for the decline of government is red herring to divert attention away from the true sources of our problems that has made government unable to govern the nation anymore. It is akin to shuffling the chairs on the Titanic. Just don't expect me to participate as the ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

But to address the problem, which is Progressivism, or collectivism, or whatever you want to call the power grab by an elite few over the years, would be to threaten their very power. That will never be discussed in the media or elsewhere.

Come on man. Our distinction is related to the extreme partisanship creating conflict and ruling out compromise. Yes it’s a problem that 1% of America has grabbed ALL the wealth but you righties are enabling it. It’s not progressives numbnuts. It’s the wealthy. I’m in the 1% and doing very very well. You guys? Not so much.

 

[Nostra]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

The issue is the media and the Progressive movements collectivization of power.

As we all know, power corrupts, except for Progressives. For Progressives, the problem is not enough centralized power to "get things done".

So what has happened over the years is, they have centralized all power to the Federal government, specifically the Executive Branch, so that the Executive Branch now makes pretty much all our decisions, ranging from what doctor we see and what school teacher teaches our children. It was never designed this way, and is why half the country wants to secede every Presidential election cycle.

And with such centralized power at the Federal level, all of our other institutions, such as the media, has taken over and corrupted them as well.

Make as many parties as you want, the issues will continue.

Irony lost out here. Thread is on hyper-partisanship and how it’s affecting democracy and you pull out a progressive rant that is the kind of rhetoric that justified Jan 6 which is ultimately a tremor of an upcoming democracy quake.

January 6th? So that changed everything did it? An unarmed woman shot dead and a Viking running round, eh?

Though it is true they were there illegally in the Capital, it just illustrates the disconnect democrats like yourself have with the country. Lawlessness is dealt with using brutal force as the name of the police officer is not given to the press and the officer is not even investigated. Meanwhile as the rest of the nation burns to the ground and looted any such attempt to maintain order is met with accusations of racism and police brutality as the police officer is trashed with death threats flowing in from people like Lebron.

You're an idiot.

Cities aren’t burning to the ground. Especially the ones not shooting unarmed citizens. Jan 6 was a good example of the illiberal Republicans throwing democracy out and trying to circumvent it. If it weren’t for a tiny percent of Republican leaders following the law wed have been in shambles. A country with a coup.

We were just minutes away from the "INSURRECTIONIST" TAKING OVER THE USA, huh Buttercup?

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

Once again for all you misinformed uninformed clueless leftists:
The United States of America is a representative republic not a democracy. If you understood the difference you might not be wacko leftists.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

This is unsustainable. Either a strong and viable third party emerges, or enough (comparatively) moderate, Manchin-like voices are elected to slow down the decline.

But I'm not even sure we all have the same goal here. It may be that the goal is to rip it all down and start over. Whomever has the most guns gets to build what's next.

Like the child who destroys the sand box when they don't get their way, that may be what's happening here.

You’re last paragraph describes blue cities perfectly!

 

[citygator]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

The issue is the media and the Progressive movements collectivization of power.

As we all know, power corrupts, except for Progressives. For Progressives, the problem is not enough centralized power to "get things done".

So what has happened over the years is, they have centralized all power to the Federal government, specifically the Executive Branch, so that the Executive Branch now makes pretty much all our decisions, ranging from what doctor we see and what school teacher teaches our children. It was never designed this way, and is why half the country wants to secede every Presidential election cycle.

And with such centralized power at the Federal level, all of our other institutions, such as the media, has taken over and corrupted them as well.

Make as many parties as you want, the issues will continue.

Irony lost out here. Thread is on hyper-partisanship and how it’s affecting democracy and you pull out a progressive rant that is the kind of rhetoric that justified Jan 6 which is ultimately a tremor of an upcoming democracy quake.

January 6th? So that changed everything did it? An unarmed woman shot dead and a Viking running round, eh?

Though it is true they were there illegally in the Capital, it just illustrates the disconnect democrats like yourself have with the country. Lawlessness is dealt with using brutal force as the name of the police officer is not given to the press and the officer is not even investigated. Meanwhile as the rest of the nation burns to the ground and looted any such attempt to maintain order is met with accusations of racism and police brutality as the police officer is trashed with death threats flowing in from people like Lebron.

You're an idiot.

Cities aren’t burning to the ground. Especially the ones not shooting unarmed citizens. Jan 6 was a good example of the illiberal Republicans throwing democracy out and trying to circumvent it. If it weren’t for a tiny percent of Republican leaders following the law wed have been in shambles. A country with a coup.

We were just minutes away from the "INSURRECTIONIST" TAKING OVER THE USA, huh Buttercup?

View attachment 504780

It wasn’t the insurrectionists that were scary. You’re right. They were misfits. The problem was the scheming President using them to disrupt a lawful act of the constitution and the many Republican traitors that betrayed democracy by voting to disregard legally certified votes from Republican led states and Republican staffed election commissions. It was nearly a coup.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

THE USA is a Republic

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

This is unsustainable. Either a strong and viable third party emerges, or enough (comparatively) moderate, Manchin-like voices are elected to slow down the decline.

But I'm not even sure we all have the same goal here. It may be that the goal is to rip it all down and start over. Whomever has the most guns gets to build what's next.

Like the child who destroys the sand box when they don't get their way, that may be what's happening here.

The Left's goal is to "Fundamentally transform" America. We cannot agree, we have no common interests

 

[citygator]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

THE USA is a Republic

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Point?

 

[Mac1958]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

The issue is the media and the Progressive movements collectivization of power.

As we all know, power corrupts, except for Progressives. For Progressives, the problem is not enough centralized power to "get things done".

So what has happened over the years is, they have centralized all power to the Federal government, specifically the Executive Branch, so that the Executive Branch now makes pretty much all our decisions, ranging from what doctor we see and what school teacher teaches our children. It was never designed this way, and is why half the country wants to secede every Presidential election cycle.

And with such centralized power at the Federal level, all of our other institutions, such as the media, has taken over and corrupted them as well.

Make as many parties as you want, the issues will continue.

Irony lost out here. Thread is on hyper-partisanship and how it’s affecting democracy and you pull out a progressive rant that is the kind of rhetoric that justified Jan 6 which is ultimately a tremor of an upcoming democracy quake.

January 6th? So that changed everything did it? An unarmed woman shot dead and a Viking running round, eh?

Though it is true they were there illegally in the Capital, it just illustrates the disconnect democrats like yourself have with the country. Lawlessness is dealt with using brutal force as the name of the police officer is not given to the press and the officer is not even investigated. Meanwhile as the rest of the nation burns to the ground and looted any such attempt to maintain order is met with accusations of racism and police brutality as the police officer is trashed with death threats flowing in from people like Lebron.

You're an idiot.

Cities aren’t burning to the ground. Especially the ones not shooting unarmed citizens. Jan 6 was a good example of the illiberal Republicans throwing democracy out and trying to circumvent it. If it weren’t for a tiny percent of Republican leaders following the law wed have been in shambles. A country with a coup.

We were just minutes away from the "INSURRECTIONIST" TAKING OVER THE USA, huh Buttercup?

View attachment 504780

It wasn’t the insurrectionists that were scary. You’re right. They were misfits. The problem was the scheming President using them to disrupt a lawful act of the constitution and the many Republican traitors that betrayed democracy by voting to disregard legally certified votes from Republican led states and Republican staffed election commissions. It was nearly a coup.

Yep. Look at history: It's never about one man. It's about what he can get others to do.

 

[Nostra]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

The issue is the media and the Progressive movements collectivization of power.

As we all know, power corrupts, except for Progressives. For Progressives, the problem is not enough centralized power to "get things done".

So what has happened over the years is, they have centralized all power to the Federal government, specifically the Executive Branch, so that the Executive Branch now makes pretty much all our decisions, ranging from what doctor we see and what school teacher teaches our children. It was never designed this way, and is why half the country wants to secede every Presidential election cycle.

And with such centralized power at the Federal level, all of our other institutions, such as the media, has taken over and corrupted them as well.

Make as many parties as you want, the issues will continue.

Irony lost out here. Thread is on hyper-partisanship and how it’s affecting democracy and you pull out a progressive rant that is the kind of rhetoric that justified Jan 6 which is ultimately a tremor of an upcoming democracy quake.

January 6th? So that changed everything did it? An unarmed woman shot dead and a Viking running round, eh?

Though it is true they were there illegally in the Capital, it just illustrates the disconnect democrats like yourself have with the country. Lawlessness is dealt with using brutal force as the name of the police officer is not given to the press and the officer is not even investigated. Meanwhile as the rest of the nation burns to the ground and looted any such attempt to maintain order is met with accusations of racism and police brutality as the police officer is trashed with death threats flowing in from people like Lebron.

You're an idiot.

Cities aren’t burning to the ground. Especially the ones not shooting unarmed citizens. Jan 6 was a good example of the illiberal Republicans throwing democracy out and trying to circumvent it. If it weren’t for a tiny percent of Republican leaders following the law wed have been in shambles. A country with a coup.

We were just minutes away from the "INSURRECTIONIST" TAKING OVER THE USA, huh Buttercup?

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It wasn’t the insurrectionists that were scary. You’re right. They were misfits. The problem was the scheming President using them to disrupt a lawful act of the constitution and the many Republican traitors that betrayed democracy by voting to disregard legally certified votes from Republican led states and Republican staffed election commissions. It was nearly a coup.

Link to Trump telling them to do That?
This is too easy.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

THE USA is a Republic

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Point?

Do you know the difference between a "democracy" and a Republic?

 

[Juicin]

A well cited argument assessing the state of democracy in the US and the contributing factors which put it at risk from a declining two-party system.

In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it’s okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fadesbecause “winning” becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of “us against them,” a kind of “pernicious polarization” that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what’s currently happening in the U.S.

What’s happening in the U.S. is distinct in four respects.

• First, the animosity that people feel toward opposing parties relative to their own (what’s known as affective polarization in political science) has grown considerably over the last four decades.
• Second, the change in how Americans feel about their party and other parties has been driven by a dramatic decrease in positive feelings toward the opposing party.
• Third, more so than in other countries, Americans report feeling isolated from their own party.
• Fourth, and perhaps most significant, in the U.S., one party has become a major illiberal outlier: The Republican Party.
  
  
  

  Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy

  As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el…

  fivethirtyeight.com

We are by far the longest running and most stable major "democracy" in the history of the world.

Why do people think the solution to partisan divides is to overturn centuries old compromises/ Yea that will mollify the small c conservative republicans. Just break down centuries old political compromises we fought a civil war over. No big deal. They'll just live with it....?

Insanity

You can't simultaneously think America is a powder keg while also promoting an end to the two party system (which would require a constitutional convention to truly implement)