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Who has a good paper on why the US has just two parties?
— Matthew Yglesias \U0001f366 (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2020
It\u2019s not first past the post (Canada, UK) or presidentialism (Mexico, Brazil) so what gives?
I think the electoral systems, more so first past the post than presidentialism, come into it, but they’re not the main factor. Most of it comes down to America’s, all together now, material conditions.
As @cushbomb has been noting a lot recently, America’s wealth of wide open land which you could keep settling allowed potential labour unrest to be diffused. There was always more to get.
So you don’t end up with a Labour party, and around the time other countries did, America was going through the progressive era, which both parties were flirting with. The Socialists and Communists were repressed, so they couldn’t be the left alternative either.
The Progressive Party probably came the closest of anyone to breaking the GOP-Dem dynamic but honestly if they did they probably would have supplanted one of those parties entirely, just as the Republicans supplanted the Whigs, so it would have just been another 2 party system.
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What Murph's reporting (& opining) on is a survey that showed, in a time of international crisis where Australia has performed relatively well, politicians benefit from a "competence dividend"
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— Richard Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) December 25, 2020
That's neither a surprise, nor something to be sneered at. But it's a one-paragraph story. It's what you'd expect to see.
The journalist's role, you'd think, would be to critically unpick that. Work through what premiers & the PM did to deserve it, or otherwise.
One case that could be made is that the premiers stepped up, acted visibly & decisively on behalf of their respective states, & the PM is largely riding on their coattails.
Murph, though, has been on a weird campaign to position Morrison in particular as a statesman-in-waiting.
Once the federal government authorised Job Seeker/Lover/Keeper, Murph was convinced this was (bound to be) the end of Ideological Warrior Morrison and we'd see the emergence of pragmatic Morrison who could govern reasonably, in ways atypical of the way his party had been trending
LOL
And LOL again.
The early economic interventions were made with a gun to his head. The idea he'd suddenly become a learning learner who learns was something Murph seemed desperate to hold on to, like it was important for her sense that federal politics could work properly.

To all those RW Hindus & Non-Khalistani Sikhs telling me Sikhs are all patriots & only minorities are khalistanis. Then how come this body that manages Gurudwaras & sikh temples & appoints Jathedar of Akal Takht is supporting Khalistani protests?! https://t.co/3cxn4NPT5n pic.twitter.com/e56K4BEy6t
— Syamkrishnan Kamath (@Dharmi2020) December 7, 2020
Udasis the monastic wing of Sikhism that was started by Guru Nanak's son Sri Chand was expelled from Gurudwaras, their murtis thrown out & declared non sikh along with Nanakpanthis & several other Sikh sects that were close to Hinduism.

If Khalistan terrorism was not anti-Hindu should explain why one after the other each & every sect in Sikhism that is similar to Hinduism was thrown out since Akali movement of 1925? Sehajdharis are latest, in 2016 to be
35,000 Punjabi Hindus were killed by Khalistani terrorists in Punjab. I am yet to hear any demand of justice for them!
— Amit Srivastava (@AmiSri) December 4, 2020
Why were the the 1984 riots always mentioned by leaders across political spectrum, leaders in India & abroad. But have you ever heard anyone talk about those hindus who were killed by
Sir, with due respect data about deaths are not hidden!
— Amit Srivastava (@AmiSri) December 4, 2020
But for Sikhs, the issue is raised at every level - in state & national politics, in public, in judiciary, even at international level. But have you seen anyone even mentioning those unfortunate Hindus? That\u2019s the point!
One of the most ancient sects of Sikhs founded by Guru Nanak's son Sri Chand the Udasis, enjoyed state patronage & support under the sikh Empire of Ranjith Singh. How did they go from there to not even being sikhs in a matter of a few decades?
https://t.co/H7sYSUeBiS

(Pashinyan's block holds the absolute majority in parliament)
Opposition protest facing the Armenian parliament in Yerevan. pic.twitter.com/I6AOZ9KLki
— 301\U0001f1e6\U0001f1f2 (@301_AD) December 9, 2020
Only the people can speak on behalf of the people, not separate groups - Pashinyan
Voices of individual groups cannot be considered the voice of the people - Pashinyan
It is not the media who decide who the prime minister is, people decide - Pashinyan
The question arises as to why the opposition does not demand early elections. Why do political forces have only one goal - to decide without the will of the people? Pashinyan
When you see something like this we need to investigate a little and join the dots.
https://t.co/GIsIzIct4B

This guy always pops up somewhere along the way, so what is the true agenda here? Who are the players?
https://t.co/HOR94sif64

And now we tie George Soros to Lord Malloch Brown and the Privy council. Soros has just made Malloch Brown head of his Open Society foundation.
https://t.co/6ss7Brnzo4

Malloch Brown one of the heads of Smartmatic.
https://t.co/hvjUICnB3S

And of course let's not forget Domonion.
https://t.co/d3DlCLGoYO
