Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (2016)

Re:Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and g... by hippich on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:23AM (#22946517)

I think we start seeing that in the U.S. with younger congress members not being satisfied with lumping them all together with more traditional politicians. Who knows, maybe we will get that here too.

EDIT: Also, if the system tries to equalize at two parties, why we do not see a similar process inside parties themselves?

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Re:Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and g... by pmyteh on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:42PM (#22948809)

If the parties have stable factions and their internal elections are FPTP, then sure. The two right-wing factions of the British Labour party just rolled over the party's left-wing by running a joint slate of candidates while the left slates split the vote.

Having said that, electoral politics within parties doesn't tend to be as important as other things: bureaucratic control of the party machinery, for example.

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