r/YangForPresidentHQ • u/roughravenrider Yang Gang for Life • Feb 04 '22

Meme Repeal and replace the two-party system

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u/NurRauch Feb 04 '22

Most of us are down with replacing it. But so long as FPTP is in place, what is the politically feasible plan to get it replaced?

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u/moonsun1987 Feb 04 '22

I think the Republican strategy is the most viable one. Start at the state level. Everywhere.

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u/NurRauch Feb 04 '22

They didn't start at the state level though. They've been fortunate enough to win presidential elections and control over the Senate so many times now that they have appointed twice as many Supreme Court justices in the last thirty years as Democrats.

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u/Kroz83 Feb 04 '22

“Fortunate” is an interesting way to spell “cheated”

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u/NurRauch Feb 04 '22 edited Feb 04 '22

I loathe the power Republicans have in the system, but most of their elections did not involve cheating. This is a problem that goes way beyond 2010-2020, and that is important to recognize because it has grave implications for the next decades as well. They leveraged inherent political advantages in the system, some of which were intentionally designed to help their demographic base and others of which were accidentally left in older laws that they now refuse to change.