A successful Latin party would pull a lot of weight, particularly in regions of concentration. The US is the ONLY significant ‘democracy’ – and by significant I mean bigger than a tiny fucking island (Malta and Jamaica are the two examples I know) – that restricts effective political participation to two parties.“You mean except for countries with[out] single member districts, right?”Guess it depends what you – or Gabbard – mean by ‘reparations’.Would have been interesting to see Amash run as a libertarian.
You know why he’s still running to keep his seat as an independent? Do you imagine the Greens and Alternative for Germany are united because they’re both in opposition? The last person to bat over .400 over the course of an entire season was Ted Williams in 1941. "Since when is government a mandatory lifetime job. He’s a threat to the very heart of our liberal democracy.Four years later, we know better. It has also been demonstrated to be false.At most, his power is one-tenth of one percent, and because he is no longer a Republican, his influence will eventually fall to zero percent.
Let the crazy wing of the LP run their Prez candidate for 2020 and get their 0.3%.Unless one of the two major parties becomes so irrelevant through missteps and changes that another party can rise to take its place, there is no way the Libertarian Party or any other “independent” party will establish a path to power. In spite of that, I hope he wins re-election, but I agree, it seems likely he’s become irrelevant where before at least he could vote and get TV time to promote libertarian ideas.
They are tarbrushes-by-association the socialist adversariat is thrilled to point to the like and snicker “see? But the Bulwark feared that if Amash was on the ballot as the Libertarian party’s presidential nominee, he’d take votes away from Biden. There isn’t anything fake about that.Duverger’s Law shows us that It is highly unlikely that any third party will ever displace the two dominant parties in a district so long as we have single member districts. Is that what he’s doing?
If anything I’d give Gabbard props for having a modicum of integrity. Instead, come 2020, 2022, or 2024, the upward boundary of his influence is most likely to be zero. The $600 per week benefits boost will expire on July 31.“ No you should stay and reform the company from within”Pushing most everyone to join one side or the other, that’s the force of single member districts at work.
Duverger’s Law shows us that the outcome of elections will revert to the mean of being either Democrat or Republican over time–for the same reason a player batting .500 at the All-Star Break means his batting average will almost certainly be worse in the second half of the season than it was in the first.This is scary. His constituents should be especially upset. Those of us who once supported libertarianish Tea Party types like Amash and Rand Paul thought that was what they were doing–and that was why we were wiling to support them despite them not always toeing the libertarian line.Even if Koch / Reason libertarians lose a valuable Congressional ally like Amash, we’ll still have AOC for many years.That said – while most of that stuff can be firmly laid on an active duopoly cartel unique to the US where the legal election apparatus is firmly under the control of two parties who allocate sub-monopoly ‘market share’ within that apparatus, third parties are to blame as well.There are safe districts everywhere there are single member districts.
I believe there is some cultural antipathy between the Latins of Cuban origin and those of Mexican, but I don’t know if it’s strong enough to prevent a pan Latin thing from getting going in the US.He is a betrayer leaving his responsibility to remain a Republican and work within a party he no longer believes in. Trump is so bad, the argument goes, that conservatives should simply reject a political philosophy we’ve embraced for our entire lives and endorse people who are diametrically opposed to our core beliefs…Does he actually need glasses or is he pulling a Rick Perry and wearing them to make us think he's smart? Your desire to ‘play the game’ is NOTHING more than the desire to play games and ignore the problem. Seit 2011 vertritt er den Bundesstaat Michigan im US-Repräsentantenhaus.
Coming in second in those districts doesn’t mean anything, and a third party coming third means even less. In systems with single member districts, the system reverts to a mean of two parties over time. Amash is slipping into grifterdom.It is a false claim.