Re:The two party system is killing our democracy
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 23, 2020 @01:29PM
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I think the cause (or at least accelerating factor) may have been the end of the Cold War. Before that, you had an identity: You were an American, and the bad guys were the Communists. You were for freedom, and they were for tyranny. After the end of the Cold War, we lost the external enemy that (for the most part) united us.
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Re:The two party system is killing our democracy
by AstralStorm on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:17AM
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We could use a leader that attempts to stop the silent civil war that is this sort of identity politics.
Unfortunately, current powers won't let them, and getting popular support for this idea is hard when polarizing is so easy.