This structure is built into the constitution; you'd literally need to find a way to amend the constitution (2/3 of states) to change this.
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There REALLY is an enormous amount of work, really good work, to be done if people want change: local and state races are barely contested.
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In a "winner takes the very powerful executive, loser gets nothing, nada" system, you can't use "parliamentary voting" strategies.
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From Tea Party to Sanders etc. primary challenges, to Koch brothers funding a billion $ on local/state races, tactical path is pretty clear.
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You may not care. Meanwhile, I worry about the safety of a little refugee girl I taught how to bike yesterday. Trump calls them "snakes".
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Nahum Shalman
I'm down. This requires a constitutional amendment. 2/3 in House & Senate, 2/3 of state legislatures. Start there.https://twitter.com/nahumshalman/status/762684133747326976 …
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@nahumshalman But if you think the dom. party in either state give that up in the name of democracy, you live in a diff. USA than I1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
From what I've seen in the primaries, the 2 parties are weaker than they've ever been.
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I think with the right nudges in the right places we could break up the 2 party system in a few years.
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stable equilibrium of current system is two. Might be different two, but two.
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Yes. You can change the coalitions that create those two; but it will be pulled to two pretty quickly.
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Duverger's Law aside, at the state level, the 2 party sys. has more to do w/ primary rules & ballot access.
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