Nadin Brzezinski
1 min readNov 24, 2021

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From a 10000 foot level they are comparable. Both need to be broken up. And we desperately need ranked choice voting and proportional representation to break two fully sorted parties.

Whether one is more willing to self disarm while the other is far more fascist and prone to violence does not change the fact that both are in a very dangerous loop that will end up in violence.

As a trained historian I see this with a parallel to how we ended up in a civil war. We are heading to one as well. I recommend a book that will detail this to you from an American political scientist. I was not born in the States. So was pleasantly surprised to hear an American academic recommend the same exact things I have considered essential for years.

The book is this. Breaking the doom loop. Because we are in one and both parties have responsibility. If we end in a shooting civil war, my fear, because we are in one already, it will be academic who was less bad.

https://www.powells.com/book/-9780190913854/1-0?gclid=CjwKCAiA4veMBhAMEiwAU4XRryT_q3IJca2qDMNWOl8ojTzIYn6FF4rw3Ew3LcgbSrNEfarUNClQ5RoCH6sQAvD_BwE

Full disclosure. I don’t like fascists. Or vote for them, but we need to break the two parties. They are both essentially coalitions of fully sorted voters who see each other are deadly enemies and each election is existential. In healthy democracies this does not happen.

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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