26th May 2016, 10:29 AM
That's not how it used to work though! There used to be many competing parties. Even having the house determine the winner would still indirectly result in the will of the people being expressed, since the people are who vote for the members of the house.
That said, THAT could be changed as well. No one needs to "completely" change the constitution, it would just take an amendment to change THAT part of the constitution, and you KNOW that. I'm not sure why you're being intentionally misleading here, but this leads to my next point.
I won't join a party I don't actually support. Now, I HATE the republicans, but the democrats are only a bit better. I really just don't trust that the democratic party is honest at all. I'll be voting for the democratic candidate when the election comes about, but that's out of necessity, not because the democratic candidate actually represents my ideals. There are MANY like me, people far to the left of the democrats (it's why I keep saying that in terms of worldwide politics, the democratic party is actually a centrist party). No, I don't believe I'll be able to "change things from the inside". Working for a group you dislike in the vain hope you can change them "from within" never really seems to work all that well. I'll tend to go where my ideals are more properly matched. Every argument you are making is basically saying "give up, this is just the way it is", as you swallow your values in favor of the "winning strategy". You may have given up on more substantial change, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to accept it. I mean, yeesh, don't you watch anime? Isn't this the part where the ignorant yet determined hero tells the "pragmatist anti-hero" they lost because they gave up on people and on change?
That said, THAT could be changed as well. No one needs to "completely" change the constitution, it would just take an amendment to change THAT part of the constitution, and you KNOW that. I'm not sure why you're being intentionally misleading here, but this leads to my next point.
I won't join a party I don't actually support. Now, I HATE the republicans, but the democrats are only a bit better. I really just don't trust that the democratic party is honest at all. I'll be voting for the democratic candidate when the election comes about, but that's out of necessity, not because the democratic candidate actually represents my ideals. There are MANY like me, people far to the left of the democrats (it's why I keep saying that in terms of worldwide politics, the democratic party is actually a centrist party). No, I don't believe I'll be able to "change things from the inside". Working for a group you dislike in the vain hope you can change them "from within" never really seems to work all that well. I'll tend to go where my ideals are more properly matched. Every argument you are making is basically saying "give up, this is just the way it is", as you swallow your values in favor of the "winning strategy". You may have given up on more substantial change, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to accept it. I mean, yeesh, don't you watch anime? Isn't this the part where the ignorant yet determined hero tells the "pragmatist anti-hero" they lost because they gave up on people and on change?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)