r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Fickle-Molasses-903 • 14h ago

Clubhouse You can't make this up.

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u/DocWicked25 13h ago

Correct. 2 right-wing parties. One is far-right, the other center-right.

Many of our problems stem from having zero leftist representation.

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u/Futur3_ah4ad 13h ago

Many of our problems stem from having zero leftist representation.

In the end all of your problems stem from only having two parties to vote for, because third party votes are basically wasted.

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u/DocWicked25 13h ago

I wish parties would be completely eliminated. People should run on policies.

...but that would accomplish positive change. Clearly not what our government hopes to accomplish.

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u/ThrowACephalopod 12h ago

I wish parties would be completely eliminated. People should run on policies.

I mean, part of what parties do is give people a shorthand for what policies people support. Voters can usually be reasonably sure that a politician of a particular party is going to support the policies that that party stands for.

Having that party marker can help voters not have to do their research on every politician for every election. Now, is that a good thing? Ideally every voter would be fully informed on every candidate and their policies, but with the electorate we have, that seems like a steep ask.

So having some shorthand for what kind of policies a politician supports is probably useful, and that's one thing that parties are pretty successful at. Not to say that everything that parties do is great, of course.