A two-party political system isn’t a democracy. It’s a flail machine. Voters keep voting against the party in charge in order to send a message. Eventually, they keep voting for the party that they were trying to send a message against.
Anything Different Would Be Crazy
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Indeed, it’s called “freedom and liberty.” That this meticulously cultivated illusion needs to permeate not-similarly-(&profoundly)-duped countries is given as the justification for perpetual global war … to give US citizens the invigorating “freedom” to be de facto enemies of the “other” 95% of the world’s population.
Let’s have single transferable votes in the general election so that voting third party is a viable option.
Biden concludes the long, tortured, Whig-like arc of irrelevance that the dnc’s indifference to crucial middle-class issues has allowed to flourish. The latest empty ploy — Kamala Harris for VP — was such an obvious attempt at virtue signaling that the only thing I could imagine as more obviously phony would be Nancy Pelosi insisting she cares about the middle class by announcing that she knows her servants’ names.
Now, finally, with Biden fumbling every single thing, with Roe v. Wade wiped off the books because the Republicans simply played a better long game, with the way Sanders got swindled in 2016 and then again in 2020, alienating a lot of voters, I suspect quite a few democrats aren’t going to play anymore. Forget a third party. We’ll be down to one party shortly.
Great idea, Lee, but the duopoly will never let anything happen that might work against them staying in power. Our “two parties” are the left and right fists of a bully that keeps beating us up and taking our money, while we cheer for whichever fist, right or left, isn’t hitting us at the moment.
Call it a form of being bipolar……