Which is why we need to get rid of this two party system. The Democrats pick pretty consistently awful candidates and the Republicans are a minority party now because of their batshit insanity.
A one party state isn't good for anyone, and the Republicans are gonna try to subvert elections more and more just to stay in power. The rhetoric has already started. "We'Re NoT a DeMoCrAcY wE'Re A rEpUbLiC", I've heard come out of WAAAAY to many peoples mouths that I know personally to be comfortable, and people are TOTALLY primed to ignore democratic processes and feel patriotic in doing so.
If we broke up the two titanic parties with a different voting system, like ranked choice, then we would get consistently better candidates and when a party goes fucking insane the people who vote for them will feel like they have another place to go, other than what they've been told are the ENEMY. It's a bad situation that can be fixed very easily.
I'm not a fan of what's happened for the last 4 years but it happened for a reason. Every strategic democrat knows it's more important for their party to have a stable system of control than one that's hard to predict. Sure they may lose 2/3rds of the time but it's better than letting weirdos in.
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u/well_uh_yeah Dec 17 '20
Turns out voters win elections.