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meta-david 💥| Building Scoop3
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I think what it boils down to is misaligned incentives. Politicians are stronger incentivized to run against a problem instead of actually solving the problem. For example, the Democrats easily could have codified abortion in 2009. They had the executive branch, Congress, and the Supreme Court. But they didn't because it's better to have that issue persisting out there so they could more effectively run against Republicans (see 2022 elections). I generally agree that having more than 2 parties would help minimize this problem because with multiples parties in play, there's more competition, and it's more PvPvPvPvPvPvP than just a simple PvP. The only issue is, I think over a long time horizon, that system erodes through a series of mergers (like businesses) where it converges back to a 2-party system. It's kind of happening already in much of Europe. tldr: we're cooked 😂
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Stuart
@olystuart
I'm a multiparty democracy supporter (US Green for 20+ years) but I don't think that change would be fundamental. The fundamental change we need is for humanity to have a post-imperialism, post-fascism political and economic system, a total defeat of the Oligarchy. Until then our highest political ambitions are just some amount of defensive harm reduction and disaster triage.
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Jared 🎩
@javabu.eth
Curated 500 $degen
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Maretus
@maretus
South Park when I was in like 8th grade summed it up well. When the choices are always a turd sandwich or a giant douche, it’s ok not to pick either one.
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