I wonder if a "transparency" or "anti-corruption" party would be successful in the U.S. I'm writing a thesis now that delves pretty heavily into the financial crisis of 2008 and the level of carelessness, corruption, and trickery on the part of the captains of finance and the leaders of this country is appalling and disheartening.
The thing that really gets me though is that, as a 22 year old, I (and all the other members of my generation) are inheriting the current system with no input on how we got to the point we are at now and little to no say on how it works. I wonder if we will be able to fix things.
No party besides the democrat or republican party will be successful in the US because first past the post is a fundamentally broken model of democracy that always reduces into a base case of two parties. Combine that with the power of money in politics and gerrymandering and there is no way to fathom competition at the federal level.
> is appalling and disheartening.
For the most part American voters have demonstrated a lack of care for the aftermath of the financial crisis, given how they brought back a Republican majority in congress only four years after realizing how well that worked in the decade prior.
Which is mostly disingenuous, given how politicians in America are all consistently cut from the same cloth and serving the same (private) interests.
> are inheriting the current system
You actually aren't inheriting anything. Youth unemployment at an all time high, average income of bachelors graduates being around 26k a year, the lowest rates of property ownership in half a century, wealth concentration as high as the roaring twenties. The aging with power and money are holding onto it to their grave, and then only their blessed decedents will inherit the means of production. There is no mechanism to disseminate concentrated wealth back into the masses, especially the youth, anymore. Economics used to promote that, and policy used to enable that, but as we approach post-scarcity both have been sabotaged by generations that want to maintain control and power perpetually.
> No party besides the democrat or republican party will be successful in the US because first past the post is a fundamentally broken model of democracy that always reduces into a base case of two parties. Combine that with the power of money in politics and gerrymandering and there is no way to fathom competition at the federal level.
It's interesting, the UK has a similar sort of system, but the vote share of the major two parties has been consistently declining for fifty years. After WWII, almost everybody voted Labour or Conservative, now their combined share is about 65%. Soon, FPTP is going to start delivering some extremely odd results.
The difference is that it's very, very simple to set up a political party and contest elections in the UK (it's a matter of a couple of hundred quid and some forms).
The hoops that parties (that aren't the Democrats or Republicans) have to jump through border on the insane in some states.
The progressive faction of the Democratic party is pretty close to what you're looking for. Check out Elizabeth Warren.
Young people could have a lot of say, but they don't vote. The national dialog would shift a lot (IMO) if young people educated themselves on issues, got their peers to engage in discussion, and participated in the political process especially by voting. Right now politicians that pander to the majority do so to the people that show up to vote, which is older people.
>"The thing that really gets me though is that, as a 22 year old, I (and all the other members of my generation) are inheriting the current system with no input on how we got to the point we are at now and little to no say on how it works."
If you will, try take that little spark, and reason it a little further. You'll find that the answer you eventually come up to is the following topic:
Perhaps, then, if you're like me. You'll conclude that it's a really poor answer, and one with a whole lot of holes. Let me know if you'd like to discuss this further, and my apologies in advance if you think I'm putting words in your mouth by making a few assumptions above.
The thing that really gets me though is that, as a 22 year old, I (and all the other members of my generation) are inheriting the current system with no input on how we got to the point we are at now and little to no say on how it works. I wonder if we will be able to fix things.