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[โ€“] democracy1984@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's a bad systematic problem. But voting based on the candidate should help to slowly fix it. While there is a very clear difference between democrat and republican, there are still differences between candidates of the same party.

If you vote only for the candidates that are closest to the center, then candidates will compete to be closer. But if you just vote for a party, then the candidates have to no incentive to compete.

[โ€“] saigot@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That presupposes that you want a centralist government in power.