Harris-Trump Debate

Prior to the 2020 election, Trump planned to create chaos by claiming he won even if he lost. The evidence is audio of Steve Bannon a week prior to election day.

 

There's no party to salvage. If I had to guesstimate, about 95% of the party is compromised. The vast majority of Republican politicians chose their careers over democracy. They also chose to support a known racist and sexual predator.

In the House, 10 Republicans voted to impeach Trump. In the Senate, seven Republicans voted to convict Trump.

 

We are better off with two viable parties. Mexico was ruled for decades basically by a single party and it was a mess. Corruption was bad and usually didn't get exposed. I don't care if Republicans eventually get their party straightened out or a new party rises but, I think we need two political parties. Right now we have one political party and one personality cult.

 

Well, hm. There are limits to the right of free speech otherwise Dominion wouldn’t have extracted that terrifyingly large judgment from Tucker and Fox.

In general, you can spew all the racist and sexist crap you like but you can't incite violence. You can say a politician is a liar and a fraud but you can't say she was a member of a child sex trafficking gang in 1999 unless you have some substantial evidence.

So it's complicated.

 

We need more than two parties. Allowing two parties to control the system and block out everyone else is how we got to a point of only having one viable party. In other countries, one extremist party can disappear, and there will still be several others to choose from. We do have more than two parties in this country. The rules constructed by the Democrats and Republicans prevent them from gaining access to public funding, makes it difficult for them to get on all the ballots, and sets too high of a standard for them to get on the debate stage. How are they supposed to grow when they're blocked from a national audience?

 

I should have said that we need at least two major parties. We have more than two parties already. The other parties besides Democrats and Republicans rarely get enough votes to be a significant factor.

 

Because of our non-parliamentary, winner-take-all, majority-rules representative democracy, no more than two major parties can co-exist for any length of time. We have 235 years of experience to back that up.

 

I agree.

 

But, winner-take-all is a state rule and not required by the Constitution. The two major parties support these rules when they benefit them. For example, the Republican Party just tried to get rid of the congressional district system in Nebraska because Democrats benefit from the one electoral vote from the blue district.

It's not that more than one party can't exist under our Constitution. Democrats and Republicans have passed laws and rules to ensure that only two parties will exist, which is just more reason to break up the two-party system. Republicans and Democrats should not have this much control over our democracy. Voters primarily vote for those two parties out of fear that their vote will be wasted, and we can't add proportional or popular voting to the Constitution because one party or both won't support it.

 

Halloween preparations.
My neighbors are ready.

 

Our system is winner take all when compared to the parliamentary system. The people don't directly vote for the Prime Minister, instead they just vote for their representative in the parliament. For example, in Israel it's been many years since a single party won a majority. Instead, Netanyahu aligned his party with a couple other parties in order to reach a majority in the parliament. They then vote in the parliament for the leader of the country, the Prime Minister. In the USA there is no similar mechanism. It is winner take all, there is no sharing of government leadership in the USA. This is how the UK works and most all of the countries that were once ruled by the UK.

 

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/cnn-reporter-warns-kamala-harris-172642786.html

"CNN data reporter Harry Enten says that one key statistic may spell serious trouble for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign just one month out from the election—so much so that a win would be, in his words, “historically unprecedented.”

In a segment with host John Berman, Enten analyzed the polling data around the question, “Do you think the country is on the right track?” Apparently, just 28 percent of Americans think that the United States is currently headed in the right direction under its Democratic leadership."

 

We have three branches of government. The president has limited power and isn't from the legislative branch, so there's no reason to come to a power-sharing agreement. Independents, Democrats, and Republicans still have to duke it out in the House and Senate.

The parliamentary system is actually closer to what the founding fathers intended and is less democratic than the system we have now. At least now, we somewhat choose the head of state/government directly.

 

I'm not a historian or a political science expert but I don't know of any countries that have had three or more major parties in the long term except for the parliamentary system of government. I would be very interested in such examples being shared though.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ruling_political_parties_by_country

 

There seem to be quite a few countries with Multiple parties and elect their President directly. Thanks!

 

Inconsistency makes Dems nervous:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-unable-answer-basic-112100645.html

Opinion

Kamala Harris is unable to answer basic questions on ‘60 Minutes’ | Reporter Replay

Not to say that opponents are doing better.

 

Yes, not very trustworthy https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/ One of the bad things about the post is their over the top headlines that don't really support the article. This article is a good example of that specific issue.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-better-polling-spot-now-090539910.html

Trump is in a better polling spot now than he was against Clinton or Biden

"WASHINGTON - If polls are any guide - and there are many questions about them - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is in better shape now than he was at this time in 2020 and in his winning White House campaign of 2016.

Yes, Trump trails Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in most polls. But the all-important caveat is that he's down against the incumbent vice president by smaller margins than he faced in his first two general elections - both of which saw him score higher with actual voters than the ones who responded to pollsters."