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How to Keep American Politics From Driving Us to Civil War
The solution is called fusion voting and it’s as old as the republic.
Want to avoid a civil war in America? It’s time to remove one of the artificial constraints that keep us locked in the two-party system and make room for Americans who value the rule of law and compromise over the partisan goals of each major party to have a meaningful voice in the electoral process.
Right now, it looks like American politics is heading towards catastrophe. One major party, the Republicans, has been taken over by anti-democratic forces committed to the false belief that the election of 2020 was stolen from President Trump. They are actively moving to change the election rules in states controlled by the GOP, both to make it harder for many people (mostly the Democratic base) to vote and also to give Republican-controlled legislatures the power to determine election outcomes instead of local nonpartisan election administrators.
Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to mightily to enact massive policy changes to upgrade our physical and social infrastructure and deliver meaningful benefits to improve the lives of tens of millions, but they are hindered by a constitutional system that already tilts power toward rural states in the Senate. So while Democrats won the White…
