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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its truly an absolute shit system and it keeps itself propped up this way. What will it even take to see blue and red completely removed? Theyre both terrible options for the future of our world, but when November comes around, they're still on the ballot.

Until a revamped Constitution is written by people of all genders, colors, faith, wealth, and education, this will never end.

We can do better than this and it needs to happen now. Its already too late, but we can help slow the damage to our planet if we act quickly.

Tired of these popularity contests when we're literally living in a mass extinction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US Constitution is not responsible for the 2-party duopoly. It actually grants us the freedom to have all the political parties we want, and corporate oligarchy has entrenched the current 2 parties. What we really need is corporate money banned from politics, starting with a reversal of Citizens United decision.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Constitution was written in part by white men who owned slaves/supported slavery. It does not reflect what America is today.

The two-party system has held American with a tight grip since the early 1800s. It has done nothing but cause arguments about how much power the federal government should have or not. That argument will continue (and probably get worse) until the USA can embrace having the full support of all of its people. Elected officials are not the answer to this. At the moment, they are people who have time/money to participate in political activities. They generally aren't aware of what this country is really going through. They only focus on a certain set of issues that they have the passion for. Rarely are they able to properly address other issues, so they end up taking their own party's stance.

America was never designed to have parties. In fact, it was said that we should avoid having them at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

We also are no longer constrained by horses and written mail. We have significantly changed how communication works and idk why we can't have a direct democracy nowadays.