Adam Gurri

Um, so most, most countries, the party organizations are quite strong because they have a lot more say in who actually runs under their banner.

Um, yeah.

Here, they're quite weak because they don't.

And in as much as there's party discipline, it's just because the success of the politician rests a lot on the brand of the party and the loyalty of the partisan voters.

And so you don't want to piss them off.

So you sort of all align on the same general strategy, more or less, in as much as there's discipline again.

But, you know, obviously your partisan voters in your state are going to be slightly different from my partisan voters in my state.

And so that's why you get this sort of like disjunction and dysfunction where there's a lot – every president fights with their own party even when they're the majority party.

Yeah, I mean, here's the idea.

The problem is our way of doing it is probably the best if you're not gonna have a competitive multi-party system.

So, okay, to get into the weeds of this, there is, thinking about legislature specifically for a moment, you can have your legislatures be one seat at a time that is voted for, and the person who gets the most votes wins.

Um, and that is not a very proportional way to do it because, um, the, there's going to be a lot of people who voted for some, whose votes essentially don't, don't end up translating into anyone in office.

Right.

I forget what they're called, like dead votes or something like that.

Um, but, um, you, you know,

could be like 40, 45% of people that vote or more that cast a vote.

It does not actually correspond to someone who is in office afterwards.

And the more people who run for it, the worse that it is, right?

So in a place...

that is run on that basis that is not strictly two party, it actually gets less democratic results than ours.