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Freakanomics had a decent podcast on framing RNC and DNC as a duopoly. Like coke and Pepsi before Dr Pepper, only in this system there is no and never will be a Dr Pepper. And the current duopoly system doesn’t work without mutual collusion. Given the amount of money both take in on the regular, business is a good analogy.
DNC is running on inertia and complacency. Inertia put Hillary in as the candidate when we had Bernie. Hod forbid the dreaded “change” should have a chance to occur. Complacency got us Joe. Both times. The moderate status quo shit is killing us by degrees.
Project 2025 has already been jump started by SCOTUS and the great orange cockroach will apparently live forever.
I think we’re fucked.
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The duopoly is the result of FPTP + Hotelling’s Law, as far as I can tell. That’s absolutely something worth worrying about and solving (including the resulting “strategic” efforts by the DNC to kneecap anyone who tries to pull them to the left), but you are just asserting based on nothing that they are mutually colluding to do it when there’s no reason at all to think that as far as I can see.
How else is it possible to keep a third party from forming?
There are third parties, they just don't have any support and the FPTP system is exactly why. If a third party with more leftist ideals form, they'd siphon most of their voters from the Democrats, which means that Republicans would have a bigger bloc and win. So to mitigate the worst result, it is strategically more valuable to vote for the one of the two biggest parties that you hate the least.
Proportional representation and the popular vote would make it easier for more parties to gain influence and in turn get voters.
THE. ELECTORAL. COLLEGE!
Not just SCOTUS but also the red states and Democrats aren't even trying to stop it.
The DNC is controlled opposition for the owner class. They exist to attract and squash any substantial change to our current system, and to give you hope that such change is still possible so long as you stay civil and play by the rules.
What would you be doing right now if every single person in government behaved like Republicans?