I call myself on the fence.
I am part of neither party because each has some good and some bad.
So I just go for who I think is the best person to be the next president. Or the lesser of 2 evils lol
Makes me kinda sad we're kinda forced to have the lesser of 2 evils as a leader. We should really have a "get these assholes out of here and redo it all" until we get options of people that just want to do good with no ulterior motives.
You’re kinda hosed either way in that sense. Yes, “consumer choice” is much better on Coke flavors that political parties. Not everyone has a party that represents them and their views well. BUT- if you’ve got a party for every single possible degree of ideological shift- suddenly elections like president aren’t about holding a minimum majority, they’re just about whoever gets the most votes. For the nation to have some cohesion, and to have legitimacy in a leader, we kinda need that leader to stand with a majority behind them. Let me give you an example.
2 candidates, 100 votes. A gets 70 votes and B gets 30. Even though a large number of the total voters liked B, the majority chose A. 10 candidates appealing to more specialized groups, 100 voters. 8 get 10 votes each. 1 gets 9votes, and the 10th gets 11 votes. The 10th has the most votes, but over 90% of the country didn’t want them vs 2 parties where at most around 50% of people can not want a candidate. More over, now only 11% of the people are represented.
2 candidates run and there are 100 votes. One candidate gets 40, the other 60. Even though a lot of people didn’t want the candidate who got 60, the majority of the country wanted that candidate. Now, say we have 10 candidates that each appeal very specifically to a very tailored group. Now 8 candidates each get 10 votes, one gets 9 votes, and the 10th gets 12 votes. The winner of the election is no longer the person that 40% of people DIDNT want- almost 90% of people didn’t want the winner. The 12% are represented and the 88% aren’t.
Exactly. If these 10 parties are all electing representatives, as is to be expected in the real world, with different regions and voting groups, such as urban vs rural, having different priorities, then the "winner" may not even lead the country. We now enter the wonderful world of coalitions, where 5 losers get together and form the majority, if the other 5 can't overcome their idealogical differences. So the "majority" will be represented theoretically, though there's a lot of infighting and horse trading involved, which means things move forward at a crawl.
I am part of neither party because each has some good and some bad.
So I just go for who I think is the best person to be the next president. Or the lesser of 2 evils lol