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In this LSE US Centre Election Explainer, Dr Nick Anstead discusses the history, evolution and the potential future of the two party system in American politics.
For more information: http://www.lse.ac.uk/UnitedStates/Home.aspx
Date: June 3, 2016
transitiion to 0:45 does not math previous slides. you flipped the democrats and republicans views and ideals
Democratic Party has not changed, they use the same tactics today of fear that kept blacks in the South "on the plantation" then. Now they've included "alternative lifestyles" and created a new demographic out of whole cloth and are using the fear of "exclusion" to keep them "on the plantation". At the end of the day, the Constitution is supposed to be the King of the Land, which was genius way of the founding fathers that roots back to the Greco-Roman Republic, but the Democratic party are so greedy to overthrow the "king" by using the courts to circumvent the Constitution. What will be interesting to see is if they will get away with it or destroy themselves by their own hypocrisy.
Vote blue
The two party system has failed Americans. They must be broken up. We break up corporations tha get too big and powerful and the time has come to break up these two political parties. They are both corrupt. After the Matt Gaetz and the far right fiasco with McCarthy; I dropped the GOP. As of 10/5/23 I am now a registered independent. I am done with the DNC and GOP.
0:47 that bit about "southern voters" really diminishing for both 1) republicans, for applying some historic stereotype to modern day and 2) democrats, who are from southern states.
3:51 the reason why there is no far-right political party in USA – because only Native American would have a moral right for organizing such, but it's not that much of them left for doing so 🙄
"Vote Fast Gray Wolf Of The Half Moon 2024: let's put all those dumb pink-skins on a big boat and send back to england or wherever"
If Washington and Adams were advising American voters not to start or support political parties, what should we call the voters to whom they were giving this advice? I would call them independent voters because they were voters created by the writing and adoption of the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the states that held the elections. They did not not belong to political parties. They had a Constitutional basis for their existence, something political parties will never have. As George Washington once said, political parties are "self-created societies".
What Democrats and Republicans are neglecting to mention right now is that the latest statistics show that 49% of American voters are registered outside of the two-party system, up from a single digit percentage when John F. Kennedy was President. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was President, over half of American voters were Democrats, 54%. Thirty six percent were Republicans.
The two-party system is in desperate circumstances. By the time the 2024 election takes place, the two-party system will be a minority in American government.
The media still tries to suppress knowledge of any other parties and will rarely mention them . The last time I went to vote, they told me that I had to pick Republican or Democrat . So I didn't vote.
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I am a non party voter. Two party system must go. DNC and RNC only represents 1/4 of the country yet they rule our Nation. The current Primary set up and the ability of the main party can block out any non party threats. Changing the rule to favor there party and block any threat to there controll.