(09-23-2020, 02:20 PM)mikesez Wrote:

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

But you need cooperation from the people in power and I'm convinced that 90% of politicians have been corrupted by lobbyist or are being blackmailed into being corrupt by the heads of the parties or others in the shadows. They will never cooperate. Short of running them all out of Washington via an angry mob and pitchforks, it won't happen. Corrupt people with power don't suddenly grow morals out of nowhere and Americans are too lazy, uneducated or busy with their own lives to even make an effort to change things.

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