Every time I see some post about how "the two party system is so bad blah blah lesser evil is still evil" I tune it out and move on. Give me a clear-cut comparison between a country currently using a multi-party system who has solved the problems often ascribed to two-party systems and I'll listen.
Finland is one. The Democratic leadership (as opposed to rank and file) are utterly complicit in obstructing structural change. Their and the Republicans' virtual lock on the elections process (resorting to “shenanigans” they very few times someone squeaks by roadblocks) has destroyed us.
Thanks, I did read this. Though my 1st thought is whether the Finnish model could be replicated wherever a population is as a whole less culturally homogenous, and is also much larger (both size & population) such as the US. That lack of a semi-common baseline is weighty, but likely surmountable.
Oh for sure. I struggle with the idea that democracy of any real sort breaks down at mass numbers living across mass geography under mass inequality. I don’t know the answer for that short of radical upheaval and smaller polities.