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How long can #Singapore’s #NMP scheme stay relevant?
🤔"Intro'ed in 1990 by then-PM Goh, e NMP platform was created to allow #nonelected MPs to provide #alternative #nonpartisan views.. scheme wasn't estab'ed to be a “talent pipeline” for #political parties.. “We must strengthen e NMP system to be the much-needed non-partisan ‘third side’ of the house to prevent the ills of #twoparty #systems tt we r seeing before our eyes in some mature #democracies” Anthea Ong" #ambition
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3299679/how-long-can-singapores-nmp-scheme-stay-relevant-why-2-resignations-have-raised-eyebrows

Quote from ancient Greek philosopher Plato: "Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it."

Source: AZ Quotes.

Time to Form a #ThirdParty?

"More than usual, I’m amenable to hearing arguments in favor of abandoning the #dems for a third party. If it was done on a large enough scale and fast enough, it could end-run the #twoparty stranglehold."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/gas/2024/12/26/time-to-form-a-third-party/
#politics #socialism #queer #greens

Good News from the #Election no one's talking about: #Maine #Question1, which limits campaign contributions by #billionaires, passes with NEARLY THREE QUARTERS OF THE VOTE.

https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2024-11-06/maine-voters-overwhelmingly-pass-election-spending-limits

This shows MASSIVE, #bipartisan, money-overcoming support for a #BallotMeasure to remove money from politics, paving a clear path for similar ballot measures in other states in 2022.

Have a video with more information...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96TmkRP6K2U

This is the kind of thing we need to rally around, as #activists: undermining the money in #US #Politics, #corruption, and the #TwoParty System in general.

@Raccoon
In a better world we would get ranked choice voting. Unfortunately our reality right now may be that we just participated in our last election. Democracy it's self is in danger.

#JillStein #CornelWest #ThirdParty #TwoParty

A "fun" part of every election season is getting to see #JillStein pop up like a groundhog, claim she's an "#activist" and that the #TwoParty system hasn't made her completely unviable, then disappear for another three and a half years well the rest of us put in the work to make #ThirdParty candidates viable.

And golly, the companies putting out pollution sure do pay her well.

I've just signed up for these four free webinars from the #AustralianInstitute.

#auspol #FossilFuels #MinorityGovernment #Taxation #TwoParty #VoterDissatisfaction

https://australiainstitute.org.au/events/policy-school/

After having conversations with quite a few Trump supporters, seeing a common theme that a lot of them really don't like #marginalized groups being allowed to vote, I'm noticing there has been a pretty strong uptick in messaging out of conservative / #authoritarian #propaganda sources like #HillsdaleCollege specifically talking about "the importance of the #ElectoralCollege." and to a lesser extent about preserving the #TwoParty system...

I think they are seeing the same thing I'm seeing: we are reaching a critical point of people being sick of the two-party system and all the other anti-#democracy systems in the #US government.

Once again, this election is a mandate on democracy itself, and I think we could get rid of the Electoral College in the next 4 years, and make a major dent in the two-party system by the end of the decade.

That alone is reason not to give up on democracy, and GO VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS.

#USpol

@jcrabapple
You need to tag all the #GenocideJoe people on this, because yes, we've been through this before: "both candidates are the same", but they won't be for all the #gay, #transgender, #disabled, #black, #immigrant, #anarchist, #Ukrane, or #palestinian people who these people are talking about throwing under the bus over "principles".

No one has ever changed the election system with "#boycot the vote" campaigns, they've only allowed people who want to make it worse to take more power.

No, the Democrat candidate is not our first choice. I like her, and I think she'll do good, but she's not #Warren or #Sanders, though they're campaigning for her. Bigger picture though: we have made MASSIVE progress with the Democrat party since 2016, and we have a real shot at getting rid of the #TwoParty system in the next couple decades, maybe even the end of this one, but there's only one path to victory there, and it's not by letting the party that wants to get rid of the #democracy itself get reelected.

#USPol

Vice President candidate Tim #Walz, who signed his own State onto the interstate popular vote compact last year, apparently publicly said the #ElectoralCollege "needs to go." This makes me wonder if, under a #Harris presidency, we could end the Electoral College, moving the #US closer to a more pure #democracy? It would certainly be much more feasible with them in office, and the political will to undermine the two party system seems to finally be taking shape. With a few ballot initiatives, we could potentially end the Electoral College in the next 4 years.

The Electoral College is one of the things that creates the wacky party system we have to deal with, which brings things down to a few key swing states, preventing presidential candidates from trying to form wider more diverse coalitions. Ending the Electoral College would be a step in dismantling the #TwoParty System.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/electoral-college-shift-to-national-popular-vote/

#USpol

"Why is it so hard for a country that is yearning for choices to get a foothold with a third party?"
#JonStewart Questions If #America's Two-Party System Works? | The Weekly ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n_EofYXRBnM&si=BXTBU9ZuYAwBDdiL

#TwoParty
#uspolitics
#voting

When ‘#none of the above’ is a leading choice;
Many #voters in this #presidentialelection say they don't like either of the #twoparty #candidates. We understand

https://capitolhillblue.com/node/101099

I wrote an essay on the upcoming U.S. #2024election, #JoeBiden, #DonaldTrump, the #ElectoralCollege, the truth about #ThirdParty candidates, and how the U.S. Presidential #election is rigged for the #TwoParty system.