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Tober said:
He is running as an independent now I get it. But he previously went for the Democratic ticket. I'm used to a multi party system in my country where cabinets always get members of different parties. I see that as a positive. If Trump takes aboard a Democrat or Biden would take aboard a Republican, I see that as a good thing. |
We don't have a multiparty system. We have a winner takes all, first past the posts two-party system. It's only a two party system at the federal level. Almost all of the states except for the very small handful of "swing states" are one-party states.
We also have the problem of our political system lumping people together according to arbitrarily drawn blocs of geography. The politicians get to pick their voters rather than the other way around.
With the exception of only three or four states where they do runoff elections, a state that has 10 congressional seats has an election where Republicans got 33% + 1 person of the vote, Democrats 33% of the vote, and Libertarians 33% of the vote in each district. That state will have 10 Republicans, 0 Democrats, and 0 Libertarians representing them in Congress. I currently live in a state where the Republicans have absolute control of EVERYTHING from local to state offices to the Congressional delegation. Democrats have only token representation. The GOP rules with the same absolute authority that Fidesz has in Hungary. And I think Fidesz has more opposition. The OKGOP doesn't have to compromise. There's nothing the Democrats can do to oppose them. The only thing putting any sort of brakes on Republican policies in Oklahoma are the courts (also largely rigged in their favor) and the Native tribal governments in the eastern part of Oklahoma, which are not subject to state authority as they have sovereign status with the federal government due to treaties that were in place before Oklahoma became a state, a fact which the governor has been fighting during his entire term in office.
The chances of this changing without massive bloodshed are zero. It's baked into the Constitution, and the Republicans in particular would never go for it.
Last edited by SanAndreasX - on 16 July 2024
