Would the US be better off without political parties? Why/Why Not?

[OtterMan68]

Yes

No

Don't know

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1 y

I believe party loylaty is a disease that affects too many politicians.
I believe we'd be better off if more people paid attention to individual candidates, their positions, their history, their words, and their actions than their party affilation.

[normalice]

The US would be better off if everyone was thoughtful and empathetic, too. But political parties are the only way some semblance of democracy can occur when people are overworked.

Perhaps fortunately in the US it would appear that over the last 20 years or so all the worst elements abandoned the democratic party and rallied behind the Republicans. So its not so much the choice between the lesser of two evils that it was. Now it's more a choice between tedious beaurocracy and exciting blood soaked Christian nationalism.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, too much political hate goes on in America and voter fraud.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :-)

[sawno]

No definitely not then you have an overt dictatorship with the tiny last bit of control gone. You already don't have much of a choice, but at least you have a tiny bit of a choice that gives them a reason not to fuck up to badly.

The real solution would be much more political party's and actual opposition, but I have no idea how to realistically achieve that in a system that has no proportional voting.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Americans no longer know how to debate.