08-07-2020, 02:00 PM
(08-07-2020, 08:45 AM)hollodero Wrote: This is escaping the situation by dreaming.
Your system and the power structures it created allow for two opposing parties and that's the American way.
Actually, going OT for a second the system makes sense if there are MORE than 2 parties.
If there are 2 parties, it should be popular vote, period.
The EC made sense when you had the Dems, Reps, Dem-Reps, Federalists, Whigs, etc., all running against each other.
It has "devolved," per se, into 2 parties, due to the funding (moreso in the modern day) required and just how certain people came to power, historically.
Here we have a similar system, in that whomever wins the most seats, wins the leadership of the country.
But we've had 4+ parties since the 1800s, so it makes sense :)