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Originally Posted by GGG
We already have political parties.
The first and second place candidates in every race were endorsed by one of two PACs.
I think you need an open primaries with a preferential ballot for the election of party candidates. Many of the current problems exist because to become the nominee you need to be more extreme than the average voter wants. The presence or absence of political parties doesn’t change this.
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Exactly, the PACs are informal parties and they tell the majority of voters who to vote for whether it be progressive or conservative so that voters don't have to do any research.
As fuzz has mentioned over the last week or so, voters are idiots and they don't want to take the time to research or get to know candidates and platforms especially if there a handful of councillors on the ballot or a dozen mayoral candidates. They just want to be told who is good and who is bad from their viewpoint.