Political Parties and Elections

[AzogtheDefiler]

We have two primary political parties in the US and they can’t be further apart these days. Curious why can’t elections just be the top two or three candidates why divide by party?

Send as many or as few candidates as states or the federal Govt wants and make all of them unenrolled or independent. This way people have to vote by policy not across party lines.

So in 2028 we can see Rubio, Shapiro, AOC, Vance and say Mayor Pete run. Let the voters decide. No more primaries.

Who says no and why?

 

[TNHarley]

and they can’t be further apart these days

Meh. They have a lot in common.
They argue about the small stuff, and come together when they plan on really fuckin us.
Look at that one DHS spending bill that got passed a while back. Massie was the only republican to vote against it because it kept funding online censorship among a couple other reasons.
7 democrats voted for it. If they voted no, it wouldnt have passed. But dems love them some censoring. Apparently republicans do too.

 

[Independent thinker]

We have two primary political parties in the US and they can’t be further apart these days. Curious why can’t elections just be the top two or three candidates why divide by party?

Send as many or as few candidates as states or the federal Govt wants and make all of them unenrolled or independent. This way people have to vote by policy not across party lines.

So in 2028 we can see Rubio, Shapiro, AOC, Vance and say Mayor Pete run. Let the voters decide. No more primaries.

Who says no and why?

Well, I have noticed not only in my city (just started this year) but several other democrat areas around the country that democrats have found a new way to cheat by changing elections to being "non-partisan". These are democrat strongholds and they have purposely changed the laws to have "non-partisan" elections where the top two candidates in the primaries go on to run in November, knowing that they are in highly democrat areas. They know that in most cases, the top two candidates will both be democrats, therefore effectively blocking a republican candidate from even being in the general election and stealing the election for democrats. Using this system they basically can't lose and republicans never even get a shot in general elections. So, I'm against this and call it out for what it is, election stealing by democrats.