Mastodawn

When voters are given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Democrat who acts like a Republican, they’ll vote for the Republican every time.
—Harry Truman

History shows that voters are equally uninterested in Republicans who act like Democrats.
—Thom Hartmann

#republicans #democrats

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janhoglund 2d ago

That America was designed as a two-party state is not a popular truth. … The reason is because in America we have regional “winner take all” types of elections, rather than proportional representation where the group with, say, 30 percent of the vote, would end up with 30 percent of the seats in government. It’s a critical flaw built into our system…
—Thom Hartmann
#democrats #republicans

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Simplicator

@janhoglund Also instead of a parliamentary system in people can vote for whichever party they want & the. the MPs compromise to form a governing coalition, here due to the spoiler effect we force the voters to do the compromising and pick 1 of the 2 permanent governing coalitions. It’s too much to ask of regular folks; many people refuse.