Dems/Repubs will happily play hot potato together forever, which they will if there is no third option, which there won’t be if we maintain this perspective, and it will all continue dragging itself and all of us further and further right.
Solution is to abolish first-past-the-post first. Not to ignore mathematics and pretend reality does not exist.
Which neither a Dem or Repub will ever allow, and since you are convinced those are currently the only two options, it means they will remain the only two options indefinitely.
Dems/Repubs will happily play hot potato together forever,
Well, yes, there is a perverse incentive here. It sucks.
Basic math and game theory still means that voting third party is self-destructive, in the current US climate.
But I have actually been surprised by how fluid the UK system is right now. They have third parties, in a FPTP system. But the slavish Republicans voters seems to make that not viable in the US.
Dems/Repubs will happily play hot potato together forever, which they will if there is no third option, which there won’t be if we maintain this perspective, and it will all continue dragging itself and all of us further and further right.
Which neither a Dem or Repub will ever allow, and since you are convinced those are currently the only two options, it means they will remain the only two options indefinitely.
Well, yes, there is a perverse incentive here. It sucks.
Basic math and game theory still means that voting third party is self-destructive, in the current US climate.
But I have actually been surprised by how fluid the UK system is right now. They have third parties, in a FPTP system. But the slavish Republicans voters seems to make that not viable in the US.