With the De Facto two-party system it's easy for me to say that the problem is not just the incumbents but the democratic process itself. It's partisan & broken. So broken that the only real avenue to reform is armed insurrection. The main problems with the democratic process include:
- Non-Majority elections meaning that any candidate who wins a mere plurality of the vote wins the election, battering voters into voting for the two-party system.
- Partisan elections which favor political parties & call for party primaries, meaning that voters don't voter for a candidate. They vote for a political party, battering candidates & voters to choose either of the two-major parties.
- Electronic voting machines which make it easy for elections to be rigged & for voter fraud to occur.
- Election laws & campaign finance norms that make it so only career politicians & wealthy candidates get elected because so much money is needed to gain recognition. Special interests & partisanship have made the political democratic process extremely flawed.
- Major offices such as senators & governors & referendums being elected by popular vote as opposed to state legislatures(federal senators) & electoral colleges(governors/presidents/referendums)
- representation & redistricting issues such as legislatures deciding districting lines for representation, spanning more than one county in state legislatures.
- No easy initiative process in which bad laws can be repealed without the legislature
The solution to these issues include:
- Requiring all candidates to gain more than 50% of the vote, if not then there will be a runoff between the top two
- Requiring all elections to be conducted without regards to political parties
- Paper ballots
- Non-partisanship of campaign finance
- electoral college system for political offices other than common representatives & local/county government elections & election of federal senators by state legislatures
- All redistricting proposals must be approved through referendum
- Right to initiative must be express & irrevocable
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