@alberto_cottica Democracies work best when there is an interplay between left & right politics.
But from the outside looking in, US sure look like having two right-wing parties jockeying for managerialship of the same politics.
There is a fallacy that the majority can take care of themselves. The root of that fallacy is that there are always much more poor people than there are rich.
@TruthSandwich@gimulnautti I am just a frustrated voter. And I am pretty old, so I remember when left wing parties in Europe had socialism and nationalisation of large companies as a stated aim, and if that was what you wanted you could vote for a party that represented you. Now the political supply is thin in comparison .
@TruthSandwich@gimulnautti with all due respect, that perspective is probably better suited to the US than to Europe. Or the rest of the world, for what matters. If it works for you, great, but beware treating it as universally valid.
@TruthSandwich@alberto_cottica I see. From you political compass perhaps, ”edgelord” is an accurate term. But thay compass only applies if I am American, which I’m not.
I’m running no game here. Just a civilian from a country with a different political system. Which makes me an outsider looking in. I’m an observer, not a participant.
America has the full range of political views. It also has a two-party system which serves to marginalize the extremists and deprive them of power so that we can have a stable, functional government.
In the last decade or so, this has come under attack from both populist extremes, with the RNC falling to its and the DNC taking damage while defending itself from its own.
@TruthSandwich@alberto_cottica In quashing extremism two parties are indeed better than one. The two parties instead are most often preferred by your first-past-the-post voting system. Fractional representations are indeed at risk of one-party results, like has happened in Hungary. Generally though, the result is a more balanced view where minorities tend to get representation also.
Well, the advantage of a parliamentary system is that people get to vote for a party that closes matches their views, even when those views are extreme. This keeps the lunatics happier, even though their fringe parties wind up with minimal power.
The disadvantage, as shown by Hungary, is that parliamentary governments can be very unstable and the extremists can take over.
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