So many Americans are looking for a way out. Our system’s usefulness is obviously nail biting. Is it time for changing our system? The US Constitution points to one spot where we can change our system today. Actually, it demands the better system is put in place at a level where today all across the nation a single party occupies most of the seats.
It’s just a first step, but it allows the second step to be taken later on. The third and hardest step must wait till when we have learned to love the better voting system and understand why we are had today. People walk away from the shell game after they lost. They consider the game fair when in reality it is not.
Otherwise a good article, Munr, but definitively pointing to our being caught by the duopoly. Politically we are not free. It isn’t a straight-jacket like communism or fascism, but a straight-jacket nevertheless. We were had. Our system is bad.
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Articles that provide a variety of views to highlight our own system:
In The American Truth, one can read how the system is indeed a set up, how it contains aspects of a shell game. It also contains information where the system can get changed in a secure way, today, to learn how it works.
In The Good German Example, one can read how States can deal with proportional voting without getting twenty little parties as an outcome. After WW II, Germany took over and modified the US voting system.
In Political Systems and Their Outcomes, one can read that how we vote, how we are represented, has indeed an effect on how we distribute wealth, what kind of economy we are establishing. I did this research in 2006 and I was not surprised our system belonged to a group that was not the best. The surprise I did have was how another system was also not that good.
In Manipulating the Political Outcome, one can read in detail how our system is not set up to pick representatives, but that it is a game that can get gamed particularly when we think it is at its strongest.
