Barracuda2020 wrote:
I think if there were three candidates it might be a more realistic with a non polarized competition that may reflect the people's choice better. Maybe there should be four, because if the third party leans more to the right or left, it splits the ticket and does leave the opposing side likely to win, which is exactly how Trump got his footing, but just two party's has left us very divided and easy to propagandize the other side which may very well come from outside sources infiltrated here. I feel certain of that right here on OPP.
I think you got him, lol right on point.
I think if there were three candidates it might be... (
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It would be far better if there were no parties whatsoever. The only real issue I take with the no party system, it would make my task that much more involved... Right now, when it comes to the presidential ticket, I only really need to look into two candidates, since third parties fare so poorly on presidential elections that I don't typically vote for them unless they really grab my attention.
The one flaw in your theory, the one suggesting 4 parties rather than three having it out, have you noticed that both the Libertarian party and the Independent party are both conservative. If the presidential ticket carried a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian and an Independent, the Independent party, not just an unaffiliated candidate, the conservative side would be split three ways and the liberal ticket would be a run away with only one liberal candidate. Of course there IS the Green party, it is predominately if not solely liberal. Of course with the increasingly long list of dirty tricks the Republicans use to try to win elections, gerrymandering, voter suppression (purging legitimate voters from the voter rolls in liberal leaning locales, right before an election, closing polling places/restricting and limiting the hours of polling places in liberal leaning locales and utilizing intimidation tactics at polling places in liberal leaning locales), challenging legitimate ballots at polling places, vote harvesting, running a vote siphoning candidate (used in 2020, the Republican party worked VERY hard to get Kanye West on the ballot, as an Independent party candidate, in as many states as possible, primarily in the swing states and primarily in locales with a substantial black voter population) and to an inconsequential extent, illegally attempting to vote more than once and/or casting a vote in the name of a recently deceased, registered voter, loved one, I wouldn't much care if the conservatives WERE to shoot themselves in the foot by over-populating the conservative side of the ticket. While the voter fraud tactic utilized by Republicans that wanted Trump to win was inconsequential as it wasn't nearly widespread enough to alter the results, it DID happen, it IS dishonest, it IS illegal, immoral, cheating and a clear sign that those involved with it at ANY level care absolutely NOTHING about fair and balanced elections OR law and order, they ONLY care about getting their way. Trump even installed one of his cronies, Louis DeJoy, as Postmaster General to sabotage mail in ballots by sabotaging the post office's efficiency to try to delay ballots getting out to voters and/or back in, in time to be counted. There was no limit to how low Trump would go to win in 2020, luckily he failed.
No, I stand by my preference for a NO PARTY system. It would be pretty damned hard to put one's "no party" before country...