The US system is a hot broken mess. It’s 200 years outdated and nobody dared fixing it.
It’s literally a prototype of a democracy that people started to treat like a religion.
The constitutionally mandated two-party-system is perfect at dividing the nation and makes sure that cross-party coalitions aren’t a thing, thus voiding all need for any cooperation.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”
From George Washington’s farewell address, 1796.
Basically, he was worried about ‘us vs them’ mentality that the two party system would bring as there was already a divide between the federalists and the democratic-republicans.
The US system is a hot broken mess. It’s 200 years outdated and nobody dared fixing it.
It’s literally a prototype of a democracy that people started to treat like a religion.
The constitutionally mandated two-party-system is perfect at dividing the nation and makes sure that cross-party coalitions aren’t a thing, thus voiding all need for any cooperation.
From George Washington’s farewell address, 1796.
Basically, he was worried about ‘us vs them’ mentality that the two party system would bring as there was already a divide between the federalists and the democratic-republicans.
Yeah, it was a problem from day 1, but they did jack all to fix it.
Probably because changing a system usually doesn’t benefit those who got into power via the old system.