“Yeah, absolutely, it would be troubling if my caucus elects someone like Van Hollen that has really made his name being very anti … hostile to Israel,” Fetterman said when asked if there is a “red line” for him to walk away from the party, in a Fox News interview.

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[–] 1 point 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why don't they just skip the party system and just represent their geographic area.

Politicians are elected to represent the people that voted for them ... not the party they are attached to

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    The party system is not a design, it is the inevitable outcome of our system. Things pass with support. How do you get support? You do favors for others in exchange for their support. Eventually the same guys keep supporting each other so they just band together for every vote and voila the party system was born. 3 parties can’t exist because it fractures the support too much to win.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    If you can't run it as a system full of independent leaders than it should at least be a multiparty system ... when you keep everyone and every group separated at arms length from one another, you get a more democratic consensus on a variety of issues. When you just have a two party system, only the loudest most wealthiest voices ever get heard on the biggest issues at play. It's better to have a chaotic system of changing alliances than an ageing system that is incapable of ever changing no matter how much the country is falling apart.

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