• profdc9@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It used to be that all votes were not completely along party lines and the members of a legislative body would actually… deliberate. Every issue and vote now has only one dimension that matters.

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      7 months ago

      Sure, but it is almost an inevitable result of FPTP, the makeup of the Senate, etc, and not just because people don’t want to deliberate. The two parties are living in completely different realities at this point and that does not set a stage for deliberation. I don’t have an answer for you, and I’m not sure that anyone in America truly does right now. There is no simple answer, that is certain. We should all be very suspect of anyone who tries to sell us one.