Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: What the hell, Yang supporters?? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the two parties, with all their faults were more mixed, and by occasionally working together when needed they kept extremists and populist wannabe leaders on both sides in check. Sorting out is enabling extreme divisions, and that may finally overcome the dynamics that have supported them. I don't care how many parties we have as long as it functions as well.
I grew up in those times, though, always very poor, homeless often, but education was very inexpensive and social mobility awesome, albeit I was female. Nevertheless, all any modestly capable person had to do to have his own piece of the American dream was get a modest skill and take one of the mostly plentiful full-time jobs and keep it. Extremism couldn't grow most of the time because insecurity and anxiety were most often relatively low. Instead, that was the era that grew a large middle class,and turned it multiracial and at least bigender and also held great wealth accumulation and exploitation somewhat in check until too many voters were persuaded to vote to eliminate the regulations that protected them, instead of upgrading and expanding them.
So, number of parties, whatever. I think we should copy and improve on what our grandparents did well and avoid the mistakes, which we've learned from. So many in these times of great change were new ones. Like that the internet can be used as a giant weapon to destroy democracy instead of inevitably creating a golden age of electoral wisdom.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden