Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 03, 2024

Republicans want one party with a permanent right wing dictator.

Stantis wants to abolish the electoral college?

That would TRULY make MAGAt Republican heads explode.

Make political parties illegal.

There are already other parties on the ballot. Generally there to give the conflicted and confused something to waste a vote on.

Other countries have a parliamentary system where the winning party or coalition of parties choose the Prime Minister; if a party doesn’t have an outright majority they can form a coalition (look at the one Bibi deposed in Israel!!!). We have the “electoral college,” instituted to favor small states but in modern times disenfranchises all but a handful of people. In order for a third party to be viable the structure of our system would need to be changed. Good luck with that.

More than two parties keeps ’em honest.

I’ll write it one more time, as I posted late yesterday, Stanti and Rall, could you halt your whining about our lack of multiple parties long enough to address the dangers of the other end of the spectrum, such as the motley collection of nutter parties that Netanyahu clawed together to retain power?:

we do have multiple parties – at the state and local levels. Many of our states are the size of those other countries.Also, some have a list system – you vote for party and they say who is in government based upon their priority list. We don’t allow that.

A Constitutional Republic.

That’s what the national and state republican senators and representative are pushing for. What happened to power to ALL the people?

Living under a dictator today, told how much water you can use in the shower, what kind of car to drive, how large a coke to drink, what kind of stive to use, the temperature you keep your home, who can and con not be on a ballot, you can not even question or the so called DOJ will come for you. Just to name a few. And that is today, now. Keep looking to NY all your problems will be solved there. Nothing else to see.

That is so true.

actually back in the days of Jefferson, it was the Democratic Republican Party, they split into two parties to defeat the Federalist Party…when Washington and Adams ran for President, Indians, African-Americans, and women all voted in the first 3 elections, only qualification to vote was being landowner…Jefferson changed that

Don’t blame just the parties. Our system isn’t set up for multiple factions.

Most of those other countries have a parliamentary style government, with a prime minister and often a president (or monarch) as well. This encourages multiple parties and coalition building.

My recommendation? Remove the cap on the House of Representatives. Restore the original 1 Rep for every 30,000 citizens. We’d suddenly have a MUCH more democratic government, closer to the people. THEN we could establish parties and factions which reflected America.

Get rid of the Electoral College and that would definitely open the door to more parties. I’m guessing that’s why we’re still stuck with the undemocratic electoral college

All the more reason for ranked choice voting!

Except a lot of countries that have more than two parties are even more dysfunctional than us and that’s pretty bad.

We’ve got plenty of teeny little parties. None of them worth voting for. In the 1940 FDR—Wendell Willkie election, comedienne Gracie Allen ran for President and did pretty well.Didn’t win,though

That’s basically dictatorship

The USA is on fire … burning brightly in the morning’s red glare. Weapons (loud and brilliant) being discharged fill the night air. Terrorist protestors occupy and destroy property and lives. Migrants of all ilks are coming through the doors—-through the windows by the millions. Meet the new leaders of America. Your new neighbor hates America—-hates you for what you have; and, will without hesitation attempt to take whatever advantage of you that he might.

AND, we worry that there are not enough candidates on the ballot. To Hell with the ballot! We need a conservative and benevolent dictator. He is out there … someplace. I’m just saying. People!!! If law and order are not soon in coming, the once great USA will soon lie on the ash heap of history. What is happening is no joke; and, not the result of one incident leading to the next.

I suggest Carmen’s education would be advanced by looking at gerrymandering and which party has reaped the most benefit (though both are guilty); continuing to pack state houses and disenfranchise voters while allowing representatives to choose their constituents – instead of the other way around.

That’s not it. It’s the winner-take-all nature of our system that discourages any more than two parties. Throughout our history, when a major party fell another took its place. Not zero, not two…one to join the other one. The system does not tolerate pluralities well.