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266 | Nick Seabrook: Gerrymandering, Responsive Politics, and the Threat to Democracy

The Realignment

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A Two Party System That Is Properly Responsive

i want to merge this with the jerrymandering conversation bectuse. There's a decent number of third party folks who listen, so i want a not just leave them totally behind your but what un basicy hearing from you is a two party system that is properly responsive solves for many of the issues that good faith third party advocates are really speaking about. You candof identify an unmet demand from a certain group of voters and the political party then shifts its platform to accommodate those voters. That explains why the democrats are progressive in the twenties, and the republicans are electing people like warran g harding and calvin colridge and herbert hoover. If you

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