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0 pointsobstacle14y ago0 comments

> You act like people that struggle with reading aren't capable of making a decision between usually only two candidates

A functioning political system shouldn't only have ever have 2 viable candidates. Much less have the only viable candidates belong to one of two viable political parties, both of which have cartoonishly stable views over time.

Maybe the broken, overly simplistic US political system is a _symptom_ of shockingly terrible education outcomes. Not vice-versa. Like many of the other social ills currently ravaging American society.

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dragonwriter4y ago· 1 in thread

> Much less have the only viable candidates belong to one of two viable political parties, both of which have cartoonishly stable views over time.

There are lots of things you can say about the major American political parties, but that they have stable political views over time is not even close to one of them. (This is, in fact, a direct consequence of duopoly, since coalition building occurs within big-tent parties rather than between parties as it does in multiparty democracies.)

nautilius4y ago

Certainly changing at glacial speeds compared to other developed countries. Wherever else do you see people debating whether we still need statues of long lost fights, whether access to books should be strongly controlled, whether abortion is a woman’s right, etc.

Edit: health care, of course, health care.

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