My article is not about third-party voting, but about there not being an option to have an empowered third party. The article is about us today.
Your article is well-written and contains many good arguments about why we should not have a single national health care system. I agree, I don’t believe it would be the better outcome either.
And you also point to having a smart government regulating the health care industry. As you state “government manipulation of the economic playing field.” It has been proven to work in several European nations.
However, for that to succeed, we need to be able to get that smarter (but not bigger) government. And for that to happen, we need more than two parties taking turns. The duopoly cannot deliver a smart government (for long).
What I see you do is taking a step toward an outcome you believe possible. But you are not considering the system in which that needs to take place; your proposal cannot take place in our system. And if it can take place in our system, then there are twenty other fields that need addressing (child hunger, homelessness, entrenched poverty, improving educational standards, just to name a few) that will not be addressed in this system.
Our setup of 50 states and a federal government are unlike any other nation on earth (though the Germans did kind of copy our system), and we have reds and blues take up all the seats only (Germany modified our system and has more parties).
Yes, you are spot on. No, your idea will not fly. It cannot.
That’s the point I am making; we believe our democracy if fair and square, but that is not true. It is a two-party system, a bipolar reality, and the sick person does not want to take his medicine. The hardest part is that you as the voter believe there is the option to improve our health care system. While you are spinning your wheels toward the good outcome, we are not moving an inch in that direction because the brakes are on and no one wants to take their feet off the brakes.
We need political competition among the parties whereas today we have political competition among the voters. In proportional voting, the parties compete for your vote and they listen to the voters much better. Here, in district voting, the voters compete for representation, and the representatives can be lazy (in light of health care, they are extremely lazy).
Yes, I like your article. Keep writing as you do. But please remember there is a reality on top of the reality you write about.
Thank you for your response, Tyler.
