This is how political parties work. And, the “founding fathers” were aware of it too. They just thought that somehow the US was special and would magically avoid this problem.
Well at least one of them tried to argue against having political parties in order to avoid this problem
The problem is that eliminating political parties is literally impossible. You can’t prevent like-minded people from working together and combining resources to achieve a common goal, and that’s all a political party is.
The problem isn’t political parties. Those are inevitable. The problem is that they structured a system that essentially only allows for two of them to be viable at any given time.
There’s a world where it would help immensely as it would prevent people from just blindly party-line voting up and down the ticket and may force people to start actually researching the people they’re voting for.
But there’s also a world where voters will continue to not care and essentially just make choices at random, causing our entire election system to become a glorified roll of the dice.
My fear is that reality would lean more towards the latter than the former.
Well at least one of them tried to argue against having political parties in order to avoid this problem
The problem is that eliminating political parties is literally impossible. You can’t prevent like-minded people from working together and combining resources to achieve a common goal, and that’s all a political party is.
The problem isn’t political parties. Those are inevitable. The problem is that they structured a system that essentially only allows for two of them to be viable at any given time.
While you can’t actually get rid of parties themselves, I really think taking them off the ballots would help immensly
Maybe, maybe not.
There’s a world where it would help immensely as it would prevent people from just blindly party-line voting up and down the ticket and may force people to start actually researching the people they’re voting for.
But there’s also a world where voters will continue to not care and essentially just make choices at random, causing our entire election system to become a glorified roll of the dice.
My fear is that reality would lean more towards the latter than the former.
I think the latter would still be an improvement, though not as much of one as I’d like
It would lead to too much instability. It would also lead to good politicians getting ousted because they randomly lost re-election.
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