Shake747

This bill is insane - "hate propaganda is raised from 5 years to life imprisonment".

"Hate" is a loose enough term that this government (or a future one) will over step this for sure.

Is putting someone in jail for life even a good way to handle bullying?

Either they're not Chinese or they don't look further than 1 comment deep

Who else competes against the DNC that the majority would vote for?

You'd be stuck with one massive party

Ehh, this is Lemmy, I shower in downvotes here lol.

For your question about surviving two party systems - I don't really know. From my understanding, this system is sort of a run off from British colonies and how their governments were setup. So I'm not sure if this is just a (relatively) modern issue that we need to overcome, or if it's happened before.

Yeah the contrarian effect is real, and that's part of the sluggishness of democracy. Dictatorships are horrible (obviously), but they can pivot on a dime compared to the democratic beaurocracy where there's 1000 checks and balances for every decision that just have never ending opposition.

That's part of why I was saying a third option might be a good choice here, because the two current political parties can't agree on anything to make good changes happen, it's almost in their benefit that it doesn't. If they're both making lots of money/connections for themselves while doing it, why change anything?

Maybe inserting more competition for these parties will help the people get their leaders to listen a bit more, and help mediate a middle ground to get shit done. Again, I could be wrong, but I don't think it's a crazy idea

Yeah fair points. It's been entertaining to watch from the outside at the very least, and I'm sorry you have to live through it - sincerely.

The US sends shockwaves to Canada though, so I might be in your boat soon enough

You're saying you feel that your choices are being stuck under a fascist government, or alter the system so the repubs can't win?

Essentially creating a one party system in either scenario - which is just full circle to being a non-democratic country. Historically, this usually leads to the concentration of wealth to a small group.

This is the divisive death spiral I'm referring to. Either way might lead to one party dominating everything, and the downfall of symbolic freedom that the US represents to the world

I'd take option C - vote in someone different

The cycle continues.

Worst case scenario it leads to a death spiral

Best case scenario they keep each other in check to maintain the system, but not much will change

Roughly 1/3rd (maybe slightly less) of the US population looks like it has the same feeling, but directed in the opposite direction.

Another 1/3rd feels the way you do, and the remaining 1/3rd doesn't care to vote

Common ground then, I don't think will be found with continuing this game of duopoly

You're right though, that Trumpism era caused more divide, but there's even more folks paying attention now thanks to that

All just my opinion as an outsider though, maybe I'm not seeing everything