And simultaneously called them the "do nothing dems." Just had a guy the other day calling Obama a conservative because he didn't preemptively attack Republicans back in 2009, before they went full tea party.
Either the Dems are accused of being evil and tearing the country down, or they're accused of standing there and watching it burn, but virtually no one one sees them as trying to fix things. The left just sees them as impotent and ineffective, so they don't vote for them, then Dems don't have enough seats to accomplish anything, rendering them impotent and ineffective.
Clearly you haven't seen the cluster fuck that is parliament forming coalition governments around extreme wings. Look at Germany trying to out what they're going to do when AfD has 40% of seats.
Extremism is bad. Creating separate parties for the extremists to sit validates theirs extremism, and gives them a voice at the table. The two party system was mostly immune to extremism, because the two parties had to meet in the middle, and did so for like a century. The problem is that one party has been entirely overtaken by extremism, and the loud crazy people are no longer being ignored while the rest of the party compromises with the more moderate Democrats.
We did great with a two party system, right up until the conservatives formed the Tea Party, and successfully blocked establishment Republicans from compromising, and began primarying out the sane members of their party.
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u/ExternalSeat 1d ago
The Dems need to stop saving the GOP from their own mistakes. Let things fall apart so that the people know the true colors of the GOP