Why doesn't America get just rid of ?

Question

All political party's and have a strait up presidential race ?
They all lie to us anyways , so it should'nt matter what party they stand for because none of them stand for people , just their friends who are going to give them what thier other friends want

Besides having a runner to choose from , we also have a party to choose from and either way we look at , they both do nothing but devide our beautiful country and the great people (of all races ) in it . To me this is the great downfall of our country.

Answer 1

Because the founding fathers screwed up.

They were the first to try and create a democracy that you could not ride across in a day or so, so it had a few bugs.

They were very opposed to political parties, but did not realize that the Constitution ended up mandating two (and not more ) political parties because it was a winner take all system and if there were three folk running and two agreed they caused the third to win.Other countries that followed managed to learn from our mistake and did not make that one.

There is many proposals from Instant Run off voting, to a new Constitutional convention, but other than tweaking something small like IRV, or Arizona's system of taxpayer funding, there is little hope that a change would be a good one.

Personally I am much in favor of taxpayers buying our politicians rather than auctioning them out to others.

Answer 2

One of the largest mistakes many Americans make, is the belief that a majority ever have voted on a president. The majority has never and will never even vote. A minority of people vote. I am sure that many don't even know what i am talking about. Unless your a member of the Electoral College you have never once voted for a president to enter office.

The Founding Fathers made it so the Electoral College (name wasn't used then) would elect the President. They believed that the people needed the elite to make sure they were doing it right. If people remember history right, The first President was not George Washington, Samuel Huntington (March 1, 1781 – July 9, 1781) was the President of the United States In Congress Assembled . The President was elected (George Washington) And the Vice President was the second person with the most votes. It was by popular vote, with the exception that the popular vote was then put up by the Representatives of the states.

So by the founding fathers, they didn't think common man (woman and blacks were not men back then) was smart enough to vote for who would lead them. The vote had to be of educated men of high standing.

I believe the common people of the U.S.A are smart enough to vote for our own President. We don't need just 2 parties, and the Electoral College.

We also need to get rid of PACs. They are just paid bribes. Pacs offer people things from other people to get a vote in the favor of the people they represent. Why can't the people just vote if they want something or not. Isn't that why we pay the politicians?

Another thing is that no election should start more then 300 days before the actual election. Each candidate should get the same amounts of Hard capped money. No soft money what so ever, no money can be spent on the person running from a 3rd party, and all adds have to be able to be proved, no more adds that are just malicious unless you can prove it with in a court of law.

This is just my thought.

P.S. to answer your question, is people don't think they can do anything about whats going on, they feel that no matter what happens they will just get another lame person in office. This more then anything else keeps many people out of the polling box.

peace

Answer 3

Because believe it or not, less stuff would get done and there would be more division.

You need a majority to win an election and the more contenders, the less likely you are to get that majority and the more likely you are to have run offs. And say the run off is between candidates that got 12% and 15% each in the original election--there would be a strong question mark there about whether the winner is truly the choice of the people.

Answer 4

Whether official or not, like minded people will band together. Besides that, the alternative, government by coalition, is worse and unstable.

James D: it's worse then that. If the electorate is split, the Prez is elected by around 1/8 of the people since majority wins. If three parties are strong, about 1/12.

Answer 5

Of course political parties will have corruption however the reason for the political parties is to challenge each other and compromise in order to avoid factions and elites (or having one group of people who always come out on top.) However most Americans are sharing your opinion as of now, we've seen major dealignment (moving away from political parties and viewing yourself as independant).

Answer 6

simply by fact maximum voters are not so abysmally moronic as to think of that 2 people who've a attractiveness in uncomplicated are a similar guy or woman. a guy or woman must be thoroughly recommendations-ineffective to think of such an idiotic ingredient. Saddam Hussein has greater in uncomplicated with Bush than with Obama -- the two mass-murdering, torturers, working example.

Answer 7

If you don't vote, you have no say in how this country's political system operates.

It's a fact that - of all the people eligible to vote, about half register to vote, and, of those, about half actually vote. This means that our government leaders are chosen by one-fourth of eligible voters.

This is why lobbyists have so much power and control over our political system and how certain groups and organizations can sway the political process in their favor.

A majority will never choose our leaders until a majority of those eligible to vote - Vote!
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Answer 8

Amen, brother.

Answer 9

well that place your dreaming of is canada

Answer 10

You are right...