(09-23-2020, 01:41 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 10:01 AM)mikesez Wrote: How?

I didn't say it it would ever happen. I just said that would be the only way to fix things. Unless people like Trump, McConnell and Pelosi suddenly develop a conscience and decide to abolish their parties in the name of what is right, things will stay status quo. I don't ever see this happening. They're all too corrupted.

In most other countries, political parties die off and are replaced after they are found to be corrupt.  So it's definitely possible to kill them.
Our odd voting rules prevent it from happening here.  Certainly first past the post voting is a big factor, as is winner-take-all states in the electoral college. We could switch away from first past the post for US House and Senate seats with a simple act of congress. 
But reforming the electoral college probably takes a constitutional amendment.
There may be other solutions I haven't thought of.
You don't need to feel helpless.

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