sikacz wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:17 am
We really need more than two dominant parties. It’s inevitable parties change.
Yes the two parties juggle issues and we end up getting screwed, like on 2A. Multiple party governments or a national unity government mean small parties have to pick their most important issues and can't be everything to everyone. Israel's current government is unstable because what unified the coalition was getting rid of Netanyahu, so it includes left, center and right wing parties and those in support of settlements in the West Bank and those opposed to settlements, it fractured. Our two parties are becoming similar big tents.
This week's Times/Siena poll found affluent voters care about gun control and abortion rights.
And the Democratic Party is perfectly aligned with affluent voters. The affluent in every society fear arming the lower classes, because in a class war they'd lose their affluence and power.
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