eric terborg

I am increasingly becoming a believer that the only way to solve the incredible challenges facing the United States (inflation, massive debt and reckless deficit spending coupled with aging infrastructure, staggering levels of illegal immigration, lack of affordable housing, insane health care costs, terrible public school systems, etc.) is to dismantle the existing two party political system. 60% to 80% of the country would agree on solutions to the aforementioned problems if articulated by intelligent problem solvers that were not tied to a political party. Many of the solutions are actually simple. The problem is, with our two party system, ~half the country will never vote for any given intelligent problem solver due to the party they are associated with. This goes both ways. Our two party system rewards extremism, lack of cooperation, and sticking with your party no matter how stupid any given policy position is. 85-90% of congressional districts are not competitive. Whichever Democrat in left wing districts and whichever Republican in right wing districts gets the nomination will automatically win. To get the nomination of either party, you have to prove to be loyal and accept its policy positions no matter how foolish. As such, safe right districts tend to nominate far right candidates and safe left districts tend to nominate far left candidates. The result is what we all unfortunately experience today. A government that is dysfunctional and completely incapable of solving our most pressing issues. We need people to be elected based on their ideas and solutions, not their party affiliation. This will unfortunately never happen. Those that control the current broken system like it way too much to allow it to be fixed. The desire to maintain power comes before the desire to make the country a better place for those that control the broken system.

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