Which died after like 60 or something years.

Yay!

To expand on the 50-100 parties thing, you can think of each state being a party, and the 2 senators having to work out their disagreements between each other, like a party would.

Representatives are numerous, and may have more than 2 parties in a state, so there's your third party.

That's good in theory but in the US it's impossible.

To be fair by telling them not to do it. EXPLICITLY!
He was basically telling them to do it

@EnderOctanus I'm American, buddy lol

Then you should realize that not enough people care about much else besides party affiliation.

You'd have to change the public perception of politics first.

Yes, but mostly in the last few decades with national news

As an outsider sometimes your politics seem like a reality tv show

True. But you'd have a system that at least for a while, would be crippled.

A Democrat in West Virginia is a lot different than California

And I am not talking about trump

Yeah. Politics past the state level turns into a money and popularity game.

But now with mass media, those two Dems are put on the same stage and they have to "perform" to the whole country basically

Which makes their platforms start to sound very similar

I also don't understand why so many of your races house or otherwise people are running uncontested

The system has just gotten too big to be properly managed the way we used to, I think.

In my local there are 5 different candidates

House races never go uncontested in my experience.

No, the system works fine, but we've messed with it in the past half century

Politicians used to be paid less than the poverty line

I was watching you most recent election

Unless you have no chance in hell of getting elected so nobody but the clear winner bothers running.

The districts are usually overwhelmingly supportive of one party.

So one party is basically guaranteed to get that vote unless their policies became really unpopular.

This will only change with electoral reform. Alternative vote or something.

Otherwise people feel like there's only one 'real' choice anyway. The OTHER PROBLEM is that almost everyone agrees that Congress is cancer.

The trouble is, nobody agrees on whose representatives are the ones that should go.

Everyone tends to favor their elected Congessman or Senator even if the rest of the country can't stand them. Partially because the country is basically a continent and so local problems can be big factors.

Everyone agrees, get the clowns out of government. They CAN'T agree on whose clowns should get tossed out. There's our problem.

I still think people should run

Then the media makes false dichotomies and pushes divisive narratives that convinces people that the other party fundamentally has nothing in common with their beliefs.

We had an election recently where a seat that had never changed hands ever. Went to the independent

It was insane

I think we should abolish the state

That would be the worst possible choice.

Exactly

Agreed

One big shitpost

Bad idea