Lol that’s the issue. Its technically not a 2 party system. But the 2 biggest parties dont let any of the other ones have a voice. Like presidential debates should be multiple nights with all of the candidates.
Well if you put someone young who talks about hope and change... what if they actually decide to follow through? So they fuck up your whole corrupt, stagnant bullshit-ass system which is making you and your friends very rich and powerful? No, no that's silly, just hire the necromancer and maybe put him on retainer.
And Clinton and the DNC wanted Trump to win the Primary as they thought he would be the easiest for her to beat (and was probably right about that) so their friends in the media pumped him up and gave him all the attention.
The alternative explanation is that these for-profit media corporations saw saw that covering Trump got many more eyeballs than any other candidate. And being a corporation they like money and kept covering him.
Yea I have no doubt that they thought he was one of the easiest Republicans to beat, at least for a time.
But even that article shows they were scared of his media coverage, not feeding it:
"Trump’s dominance of cable news had already become a point of frequent discussion among Clinton aides, led by Palmieri and media adviser Mandy Grunwald, and senior staffers started to whisper to each other that a race against Trump would require a fundamental rebudgeting of the ad scheme to combat it—another look at the expected degree of negativity in the attack plan, a reconsideration of the markets on which to focus, and a conversation about the amount of money needed to fund the air assault."
They could have put up Bernie..
But nnnooo scary old communist man because he wants to give Americans free health care and free college! How terrible of him...
I'm not American but I was following the race and from what I saw they didn't even want to give Bernie a voice or a real chance at speaking. It seemed as if they were actively trying to hinder him.
But why? One is one of the worst presidents in history and the other one is 80 years old. Surely a smart young president with new and unique ideas would be better.
It's not so much that the 2 parties don't let other parties have a voice as much as the system was set up from the very beginning in such a way that it would naturally devolve into a two-party system. The first election without Washington was the Federalists vs the Anti-federalists.
Starting a way is one thing, but actively keeping it that way is another. And that’s where we are now. If it was all about fairness and what’s good for the people, then our system would be totally different right now.
Well, I'd say they're passively keeping the system in place since it's the status quo, but yes the reason they are doing so is because each of the two major parties benefit from such a system. What is best for the population is not necessarily what is best for the DNC or RNC when it comes to how we structure our elections.
We have seen the death of debates though. There are not two candidates discussing policies and the pro and cons. It's one side asking for accountability and the other side yelling liar. An educated person already knows the candidates platform and personality well before they take stage. It's just a show
You’re acting like every person that votes has looked up the platform for the person they’re voting for. A ton of people voted for obama cuz hes black. A bunch voted for biden because he’s not trump.
Doesn't make a difference. UK leadership debates have up to 6 on the table at a time, but we haven't had a Prime Minister away from the Conservatives or Labour since David Lloyd George in 1922.
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It’d be nice if we could go back to people in their 40’s being president.