Not until the US realises the systemic issues supporting the populist despots position. I’ll focus on the two party system below.
If the Democratic Party truly want to improve the USA what they can do is break up. The duopoly can be blown up. They could do it brexit style and just completely flip the board this would inevitably lead to Republican domination but quickly without another major side to fight against their anti-democratic actions will be the only thing to talk about. A bit like how the only thing to do with brexit is ignore it, or talk about it’s costs. This would hurt the USA and democracy would go through a recession.
Another option is to recreate their party structure to only be based between clear democracy sign posts. Agree to support any democratic president that is elected, but in elections they could support their different preferred candidates. Only after an election is resolved do they fall in line behind a democratic winner. In other words be a big tent, formalise the so called ‘caucuses’ underneath the current Party as different and increasingly independent Party’s, welcome in Republican ‘caucuses’ who still believe in democracy and use the Democratic Party as the banner to build out a multi-party system at the federal level.
Its long, complicated, and probably has many flaws, but multi-party coalition Governments seem to be the worlds best chance at holding onto a liberalised and mostly Just system of governance.
So a path towards coalition multi-party democracy is what I’m essentially advocating here. Too many Republicans don’t even understand the benefits of the democratic system so I can’t see many of them have the cojones to blow up their party, they’d happily live under a dictator it seems.
Not until the US realises the systemic issues supporting the populist despots position. I’ll focus on the two party system below.
If the Democratic Party truly want to improve the USA what they can do is break up. The duopoly can be blown up. They could do it brexit style and just completely flip the board this would inevitably lead to Republican domination but quickly without another major side to fight against their anti-democratic actions will be the only thing to talk about. A bit like how the only thing to do with brexit is ignore it, or talk about it’s costs. This would hurt the USA and democracy would go through a recession.
Another option is to recreate their party structure to only be based between clear democracy sign posts. Agree to support any democratic president that is elected, but in elections they could support their different preferred candidates. Only after an election is resolved do they fall in line behind a democratic winner. In other words be a big tent, formalise the so called ‘caucuses’ underneath the current Party as different and increasingly independent Party’s, welcome in Republican ‘caucuses’ who still believe in democracy and use the Democratic Party as the banner to build out a multi-party system at the federal level.
Its long, complicated, and probably has many flaws, but multi-party coalition Governments seem to be the worlds best chance at holding onto a liberalised and mostly Just system of governance.
So a path towards coalition multi-party democracy is what I’m essentially advocating here. Too many Republicans don’t even understand the benefits of the democratic system so I can’t see many of them have the cojones to blow up their party, they’d happily live under a dictator it seems.