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As a non American looking in, I think working on sticking together raising children would be more effective than a Government intervention of wealth transfer between ethnicity groups. It's no secret that children raised in a single parent household will have a harder financial live during childhood as well as adulthood.

"While 21 percent of all mothers were single mothers in 2023, 47 percent of Black mothers and 25 percent of Hispanic mothers were single mothers. White mothers and Asian mothers had lower rates of single motherhood than mothers overall at 14 percent and 8 percent, respectively."

Source: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-economic-status-of-single-mothers/

Nearly half of Black mothers being single is disastrous. For sure there can be good reasons for parents to split up, but nearly half the time? Don't tell me that is because of racism. There needs to be a culture change for parents sticking together through good and hard times. This would be the single best thing to improve the lives for the Black community going forward.

Last edited by Tober - on 25 June 2025

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Mnementh said:
Cyran said:

I think it might have a bigger affects than you would imagine.  Not over night but over time.  For example in 2024 under the french system I would of consider third party on round 1 if I knew I would of had a round 2 too vote against Trump.  Since that was not the case I never even consider voting for anyone other then Harris.  Over time as people see third party get more votes more and more people would become comfortable voting for them.

You can call it a lie but when it been around 175 years since last time someone who was not a Democrat or Republican won until there more states that stop using winner take it all it going to be tough to convince people that someone that not Democratic or Republican have a serious shot of winning and therefore people going to choose the candidate that they believe closer to what they want.

As I wrote, some states even have Instant Runoff. Rules can be changed. And Japan and UK as I wrote have similar systems anyways. Also it should strike you as weird that pretty much any democracy can have multiple parties, but in the US it suddenly is impossible?

Not impossible but it going to take awhile.  I think UK culturally closest to USA and if they had the same system we had I truly believe they would only have 2 parties also.  There system give power to third parties in minority in helping form government our system don't so at least there if you vote for a liberal third party in UK for example you at least have hope they be able to influence the labor party.  Similar to USA it been I think around 100 years since there been a prime minister in UK that was not from  Labour or Conservative party.

Even in Japan post WW2 with the exception of 1993-1996 they also only had prime minsters from 2 parties Liberal Democratic and Democratic parties.



Cyran said:
Mnementh said:

As I wrote, some states even have Instant Runoff. Rules can be changed. And Japan and UK as I wrote have similar systems anyways. Also it should strike you as weird that pretty much any democracy can have multiple parties, but in the US it suddenly is impossible?

Not impossible but it going to take awhile.  I think UK culturally closest to USA and if they had the same system we had I truly believe they would only have 2 parties also.  There system give power to third parties in minority in helping form government our system don't so at least there if you vote for a liberal third party in UK for example you at least have hope they be able to influence the labor party.  Similar to USA it been I think around 100 years since there been a prime minister in UK that was not from  Labour or Conservative party.

Even in Japan post WW2 with the exception of 1993-1996 they also only had prime minsters from 2 parties Liberal Democratic and Democratic parties.

Prime Ministers is a harder call. I talk about parliament, because they (also in the US) make the laws. The smaller parties usually don't set the head of government, but they influence (and sometimes their pure existence influences) the laws that are made. Nothing really keeps the US from electing third-party candidates to the house, except the weird legend that it will not work.



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Mnementh said:
Cyran said:

Not impossible but it going to take awhile.  I think UK culturally closest to USA and if they had the same system we had I truly believe they would only have 2 parties also.  There system give power to third parties in minority in helping form government our system don't so at least there if you vote for a liberal third party in UK for example you at least have hope they be able to influence the labor party.  Similar to USA it been I think around 100 years since there been a prime minister in UK that was not from  Labour or Conservative party.

Even in Japan post WW2 with the exception of 1993-1996 they also only had prime minsters from 2 parties Liberal Democratic and Democratic parties.

Prime Ministers is a harder call. I talk about parliament, because they (also in the US) make the laws. The smaller parties usually don't set the head of government, but they influence (and sometimes their pure existence influences) the laws that are made. Nothing really keeps the US from electing third-party candidates to the house, except the weird legend that it will not work.

House in theory I agree there no reason third parties should not be viable.  Truthfully most the time when I vote there not even a third party as a option on the ballad even if I wanted to vote third party.  My guess this goes to another major issue with USA elections they extremely expensive and without a major party backing you it difficult to raise the money needed unless you already famous or have lot of name recognition already.  We seen independents win but 3rd parties seem rare in USA.  I think a lot of other countries have spending limits with campaigns and stricter rules about how money is spent which might explain why it easier in other countries.



Cyran said:

House in theory I agree there no reason third parties should not be viable.  Truthfully most the time when I vote there not even a third party as a option on the ballad even if I wanted to vote third party.  My guess this goes to another major issue with USA elections they extremely expensive and without a major party backing you it difficult to raise the money needed unless you already famous or have lot of name recognition already.  We seen independents win but 3rd parties seem rare in USA.  I think a lot of other countries have spending limits with campaigns and stricter rules about how money is spent which might explain why it easier in other countries.

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I don’t know if the internet ever has been free of racism but racists are generally cowards, so being anonymous or relatively free from consequences generally makes the internet a safe haven for those types of people.