Progressive Politics

Yes it’s quite the collection of ultra-complex confusing and incomprehensible mysteries

It's more like a school shooter whom Republicans refuse to do anything about in regards to restricting access to arms nearly killed their presidential candidate.

What if the yanks had more than 2 parties

We're often lucky to have more than one party. States like Texas and Florida are so heavily gerrymandered that supermajorities for the prevailing party are practically assured. The Dems form a rump of opposition in these states, while Greens and Libertarians are barely an afterthought.

i know that other parties can exist but they dont do really anything.

Constituencies in Europe are significantly smaller and more regionally distinct. Hard to have a Scottish New Labor Party or a French Polynesia Party when our states are dominated by constituencies that moved in barely a generation ago. By all rights we should have a "Texas Party" and a "California Party". But its worth noting that the modern Texas GOP was built up practically brick-by-brick through George HW Bush and the Standard Oil company, originally based out in NY/NJ/CT. Dallas, Houston, and Austin are dominated by families of east coast Republicans who came spilling in during the 80s/90.

We should probably have a "Christian Democrats" party or a "Tea Party" properly, but the major religious and ideological leaders of the past were fully wedded to the existing post-WW2 partisan establishment. The closest we ever really had to a break-away party in the last half-century was the Jim Crow Segregationists under George Wallace. And that fell apart in the face of Nixon's Southern Strategy simply gobbling up all the Dixiecrats and turning them into modern day Republicans.

What if the yanks had more than 2 parties

Political parties represent the interests of the wealthy - for a third party in the US to be successful, it would have to cater to a moneyed interest that the current "good cop/bad cop" routine doesn't cater to. As far as I can tell, the capitalist class in the US is perfectly happy with this duopoly - so no third party.

I'm afraid that a third party is no "silver bullet" - here in South Africa, we have a whole bunch of parties, and guess what... they still only end up serving the interests of the wealthy. Our largest two factions of political racketeers are neoliberals that will happily bend over backwards to sell South Africans out to foreign corporations, while the third-largest is literally just a front for a bunch of overmoneyed Zulu royalty - no surprises that our voter apathy is even worse than in the US.

FPTP voting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Make all the SCOTUS judges 4 years older and those senators that belive in the sanctity of the filibuster 4 years older.

Hey now, if the Democrats win the presidency and a veto proof majority in both houses then they'll do something and then take that proposal and compromise it with the right.

Anything less than the presidency and veto proof majorities in both houses and they'll get nothing done at all.