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    Quote Originally Posted by Homura View Post
    The two-party system will continue as long as first pass the post system exists for the US.
    Yeah, hate to say it, but the political system that's in place is way too entrenched and is definitely too defended by the media to ever be disrupted by public voting alone. The only realistic way you uproot an entire political system to start over is, yes, revolution. And usually that isn't considered until things get REALLY bad. Right now, they're just pretty bad. :x

    Between Hillary and Trump, I choose neither. Hillary is a chronic liar and Trump is an egotist. Watching the debates should be amusing, though. For things like that, I wish Mystery Science Theater 3000 was still around for those kinds of occasions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neo Emolga View Post
    Yeah, hate to say it, but the political system that's in place is way too entrenched and is definitely too defended by the media to ever be disrupted by public voting alone. The only realistic way you uproot an entire political system to start over is, yes, revolution. And usually that isn't considered until things get REALLY bad. Right now, they're just pretty bad. :x

    Between Hillary and Trump, I choose neither. Hillary is a chronic liar and Trump is an egotist. Watching the debates should be amusing, though. For things like that, I wish Mystery Science Theater 3000 was still around for those kinds of occasions.
    They say the percentage of independent voters is going up every cycle. The rate its increasing should eventually start pushing things to change more.





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    Rant incoming, so I apologise. :3

    Quote Originally Posted by Neo Emolga View Post
    Yeah, hate to say it, but the political system that's in place is way too entrenched and is definitely too defended by the media to ever be disrupted by public voting alone. The only realistic way you uproot an entire political system to start over is, yes, revolution. And usually that isn't considered until things get REALLY bad. Right now, they're just pretty bad. :x

    Between Hillary and Trump, I choose neither. Hillary is a chronic liar and Trump is an egotist. Watching the debates should be amusing, though. For things like that, I wish Mystery Science Theater 3000 was still around for those kinds of occasions.
    I agree fully. I liken what's going on in America right now to what's going on here in the UK, because our country is also facing situation where the two main parties are laughably incompetent; one is falling apart with bratty in-fighting, and the other brought in a Prime Minister nobody voted for and refuse to hold an election, even though they'd take full advantage of the other party's weakness. Other parties have been shooting up everywhere, and they're all taking their own slices from the main two. Proportional representation is the ideal method of voting, but then it leads to coalitions, which in turn lead to weaker governments. I'd just like to see it trialled for one General Election though, because I think drastic reforms are necessary; the left and right in the UK (which is for the most part separated by age) is becoming a larger divide by the day, and it's strange to see how it all unfolds.
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