My point is that this system is not necessarily undemocratic, and indeed that it can even be too democratic. It all depends on the internal setup of the two parties. The Republican party is definitely a “sham of a democracy” in that it has too much of it. In Sweden no Trump figure can take over the government because the parties will stop him. In the USA in the past, the Republican party would have served the same purpose.
THEY ARE PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS AND THEREFORE THEIR PRIMARIES ARE ACTUALLY LITERALLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SHAMS THAT PRETEND TO BE UNBIASED WHILE ADMITTING TO BEING BIASED IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHERE THEIR INTEGRITY WAS CALLED INTO QUESTION.
We saw that twice with how the Democrats treated Bernie. And when the DNC was sued for it, they argued publicly in court in Florida that it’s their right to rig primaries.
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The situation we are in today was influenced and pushed so hard by the Clintons that I’m tempted to start a tour where we drive by the Clinton mansion and show people the family that did the most damage to the working class in the United States. To me, it’s almost unfathomable how much better a country we’d have been without rampant neoliberalism. Manufacturing would still be here, Temu wouldn’t exist, global warming wouldn’t be even remotely as bad as it is since we had a whole government intent on shipping everything from China for the past 30 years, unions would still exist, college would be covered by taxes, we’d have Single Payer, etc.
If you haven’t heard about it, look into the DLC. They were formed with the purpose of pushing the DNC (the de-facto “left wing” of the FPTP US political system) to the right.
It’s no coincidence that their archives were sealed and locked up into the Clinton Foundation archives.
I did mention it, “majoritarian” means FPTP.
My point is that this system is not necessarily undemocratic, and indeed that it can even be too democratic. It all depends on the internal setup of the two parties. The Republican party is definitely a “sham of a democracy” in that it has too much of it. In Sweden no Trump figure can take over the government because the parties will stop him. In the USA in the past, the Republican party would have served the same purpose.
They’re both sham parties you strangely disingenuous fascist
The internal setup of the two parties is that
THEY ARE PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS AND THEREFORE THEIR PRIMARIES ARE ACTUALLY LITERALLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SHAMS THAT PRETEND TO BE UNBIASED WHILE ADMITTING TO BEING BIASED IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHERE THEIR INTEGRITY WAS CALLED INTO QUESTION.
They are an anti-democratic sham.
We saw that twice with how the Democrats treated Bernie. And when the DNC was sued for it, they argued publicly in court in Florida that it’s their right to rig primaries.
✊🏼 The situation we are in today was influenced and pushed so hard by the Clintons that I’m tempted to start a tour where we drive by the Clinton mansion and show people the family that did the most damage to the working class in the United States. To me, it’s almost unfathomable how much better a country we’d have been without rampant neoliberalism. Manufacturing would still be here, Temu wouldn’t exist, global warming wouldn’t be even remotely as bad as it is since we had a whole government intent on shipping everything from China for the past 30 years, unions would still exist, college would be covered by taxes, we’d have Single Payer, etc.
If you haven’t heard about it, look into the DLC. They were formed with the purpose of pushing the DNC (the de-facto “left wing” of the FPTP US political system) to the right.
It’s no coincidence that their archives were sealed and locked up into the Clinton Foundation archives.
Thank you for the reply and the info. I’ll read up on them.