We need voting reform to help fix our broken two party system.
We should outlaw all form of bribery (lobying), and we desperately need ranked choice voting or approval voting to make third party candidates viable, and to reduce the political extremism.
It would also help if we had journalism reform, because there is a lot of bullshit “journalism” being peddled around these days. Looking at you CNN, Fox News, MSNCBC, Breitbart, etc.
Completely agree. The one nice thing about the terrible state of US journalism for me is since no one source can be trusted, I’m compelled to look at multiple sources and critically think more.
Pro gun, pro choice… not a lot of candidates for me to pick from, hah!
I am pro gun and pro choice. I agree it is hard to pick a candidate. Where are the anarchist candidates?
Not American Libertarian. The trust of corporations to not be a government with more steps is nonsense. Giving Disney a monopoly on violence is a bad idea.
Libertarians, but then you have to say you like the libertarians and everyone will laugh at you.
I’d like to call myself a libertarian, but unfortunately the modern libertarian movement has kind of ruined the word.
Here is a related article that goes into much more depth.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
I think this is actually a really interesting article. Breaking down the overly simplistic 2 party system we have would be a great thing. There is more that can be broken down that even this survey indicates, but it’s still interesting and helpful.
We tend to forget that other people’s ideologies can’t be boiled down to left or right, so we get the “conservative = bad” or “liberal = bad” mentality. Which is unproductive and only increases the radicalism that most people of most ideologies hate.
yeah - and i fault the media for that. the actual truth in political ideology is complicated and cant be summed up in a blanket statement that one or the other is blessed/evil but it would take hours to explain that and no one has time or desire to listen to that when soundbites rule the world.
mass media itself needs significant checks and balances levied against it - it’s too “free” for lack of a better word.
Excellent point. I agree completely.
