Party Instability: Why American Politics Feels Broken | Intellections

American politics feels broken because existing voting blocs are regrouping and reconsidering which issues motivate them and which political party they support. Ongoing economic and demographic structural changes have led to control of the legislative and executive branches shifting back and forth. While this is not the first time in the history this has occurred, political parties will need to figure out a winning combination of policies that can consistently win them elections in order to stabilize American politics.

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[inversepie]

This video puts forth a mere pipe dream. Identity politics of black versus white versus brown are not going away because it's just TOO EASY for politicians to win districts of majority one race by blaming all their problems on another race.

[TheTrueAdept]

The thing is that at the end of the day, we had been raised to erroneously believe that democracy solves all problems, that Hobbes and Machiavelli are wrong, that technology doesn't really change politics.

The reality is, democracy causes more problems than it really solves in the long run, Hobbes and Machiavelli are closer to the truth on the human condition and politics than you think, and technology changes politics immensely.

If you can't wrap your head around that, then whatever you do is fated to fail.

[thomaswhite]

Actually, i do not hold those standards to any candidate. And if i don't to say that my vote counts less is also incorrect. I vote based on whether the candidate will uphold my inalienable rights that we agree are morally helpful to the growth of American and western civilization. So how would you reframe your commercial to capture mine and mant others viewpoints?

[williamjones]

so when Nationalism and Socialism join forces? isnt there a German word for that? 😂