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How should we deal with Republican anti-democratic politics

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domos 7 Feb 4
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We need to abolish all political parties. Parties are inherently divisive and provide a venue to aggregate power and that leads to corruption. Many of our Founding Fathers knew this and did not want political parties as part of our governance.

Let every candidate run on their own merits and platform. This would help to end tribalism, and increase the number of ideas in governance. Voting needs to be overhauled, and replaced with a "play-offs" style voting system (Exhaustive Ballot) where in each round of voting 1/2 of the candidates are eliminated until a winner is reached. We also need to eliminate nearly all money from campaigning and Lobbies. The news media and internet can be used to supply candidate exposure for free. Plus by limiting their message time, candidates will need to better craft their positions. We need to also put an end to all "riders" on Bills going to vote in Congress.

Political parties are an inherent consequence of freedom of speech and freedom of association.

I don't know how they can be abolished without doing a lot of damage to those two freedoms.

I think the cost might be too high for that to work.

@domos Under a Partyless system using Exhaustive Election
voting, extremists for either party are unlikely to win elections.

Parties were sorr of useful in the old days because information on individual candidate was difficult to diseminate. That is no longer an issue. Also having a 2 party system has meant that there was only 2 opinions on how to approach our problems...and they tended to gravitate toward the extremes. Eliminating parties would yield far more nuance .

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Democrats need 1) to keep working on their ground game and educating the electorate; 2) To sue every state and embarrass every politician that enacts election subversion; 3) To pursue & publicize how the Koch organization organized election subversion legislation (it should be a sedition RICO); 4) To neutralize Fox as a mouthpiece for Russia; 5) Fix immigration and the border; 6) Pressure Congress to eject seditious Congresspersons; 7) Pressure DOJ to convict the Trump gang and all the coup organizers. (And decriminalize cannabis)

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NAZI much?

You're welcome.

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@LovinLarge exactly what point are you trying to make?

@domos The obvious one. Nazism is a right wing ideology much more closely associated with Republicans than Democrats. As usual, this conservative member doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

Can you please explain your point explicitly? @JarcarC

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