Dems secure U.S. Senate, House still up for grabs

[gracchus]

The duopoly is effectively built into the American system and both party establishments are in no rush to change that. This is the natural outcome of such a system. As I noted in an earlier Topic where we were discussing the lack of things like making election day a civic holiday:

@gracchus

it’s mainly about their preserving a situation where only privileged white people like themselves are making the decisions. It comes from the same place as those who wax rhapsodic and then bend themselves into pretzels defending the broken fixed presidential primary system: it’s really about making sure that lilly-white states like NH and Iowa (with its terrible in-person caucus, which these types also defend) have the first say and set the tone. Same goes for those who support the Electoral College in its current state or FPTP voting.