Two Party System

[Ocean Seal]

How do we organize against it on the electoral front? Can we organize against it, or will we have the Republicrat dictatorship until the revolution.

[TheRed]

I don't think there really is a way (other than voting independent or just not voting at all) personally I think all of our candidates for 2012 have their heads up their asses and to vote Obama back in would be the minimizing our losses.

[Blake's Baby]

How do we organize against it on the electoral front? Can we organize against it, or will we have the Republicrat dictatorship until the revolution.

1 - I advise you don't;
2 - yes but not successfully I don't think;
3 - probably, unless the shit hits the fan and the American bourgeoisie decides you need a spell of fascism.

But then again, I would say that, I'm opposed to elections as somewhere between 'a waste of time' and 'a huge f***ing con'.

[Die Rote Fahne]

One party state, two party state...it's quite interesting when you start wording it to conservatives and liberals as a bi-party dictatorship.

[Marxaveli]

Both the Dems and Reactionaries are two sides of the same coin. The only difference is that the Dems are willing to give us a few scraps off their plate, while the Republicans do not. The two-party state is designed this way on purpose, to give us the illusion that we are democracy. How can we be such when both parties support the interest of the ruling class and want to keep Capitalism intact, with a few reforms here and there at best? And the American political system itself has a ton of non-democratic features that help keep the process rigid so the Bourgeois interests are maintained. The whole process is a sham.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Rosa, I suggest you change that before you receive a warning or infraction.

[rundontwalk]

I think that it would be possible to institute proportional representation to break the two party system from the bottom up. Begin with state legislatures and such.

You could get a fairly broad group together to try to make it happen.

[Die Rote Fahne]

I think that it would be possible to institute proportional representation to break the two party system from the bottom up. Begin with state legislatures and such.

You could get a fairly broad group together to try to make it happen.

It's hard enough to get that in an already multi-party parliamentary system (Canada).

[rundontwalk]

It's hard enough to get that in an already multi-party parliamentary system (Canada).
I was thinking that if you have a state where the Republicans control everything or vice versa you could form an argument that would convince the major opposition party as well as third parties to support PR. The major opposition party should support PR because it would be their only realistic chance of picking up more seats, and the third parties should support it for the obvious reason it offers them the only chance to get elected.