From 538’s Dan BermanOver the last few weeks there has been an understandable focus on downsides to a plurality electoral system, such as whether they are biase…
I would hate to live in a country where a minority of segregated voters in gerrymandered districts was hand-fed a bunch of corporate shills and fascist freaks through a comically corrupt primary system.
Imagine living in a country where the ostensibly democratic leadership had a sub 20% approval rating for the last 30 years running. And every new election cycle produced some of the most vulgar, hateful, ignorant, slimeballs imaginable. Then elevated them to high office for the purpose of expanding the police state and immiserating the public under the auspices of popular rule and fiscal conservatism.
I would hate to live in a country where a minority of segregated voters in gerrymandered districts was hand-fed a bunch of corporate shills and fascist freaks through a comically corrupt primary system.
Imagine living in a country where the ostensibly democratic leadership had a sub 20% approval rating for the last 30 years running. And every new election cycle produced some of the most vulgar, hateful, ignorant, slimeballs imaginable. Then elevated them to high office for the purpose of expanding the police state and immiserating the public under the auspices of popular rule and fiscal conservatism.
Meet the new shitheads, same as the old shitheads