The Two Party System by McCoy McInerney

The Green Party

mccoymcinerney29 — 2024-03-02 06:02:19 UTC

The US Green Party is the other major third party in the US besides the libertarian party. The Green Party has advocated for a reduction in military spending and intervention, a focus on ecology and enviromentalism, social services and social justice, as well as publicly financed elections and more representative voting systems. The Green Party has never won the US presidential election and while holding the occasional house seat back in the 2000s their party's power mostly comes in the form of activism and movements rather than actually holding positions of power. Due to the inherent flaws of the 2 party system and the first past the post voting style most Green Party members end up voting democrat because it matches the closest with their values.

https://www.gp.org

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/politics/jill-stein-green-party-2024-election/index.html

The Democratic Party

mccoymcinerney29 — 2024-03-02 06:03:53 UTC

The Democratic Party has normally stood for The party favors a mixed economy and generally supports a progressive tax system, higher minimum wages, Social Security, universal health care, public education, and subsidized housing. It also supports infrastructure development and clean energy investments to achieve economic development and job creation. It has had very mixed success with actually implementing these policies in the past either due to corruption or not being able to pass things through congress.

It is incredibly Pro- Military intervention as seen by Bush, Obama, And now Biden trying to extort as much resources as possible out of the middle east.

(The poll is from https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-approves-14-5-billion-in-assistance-for-israel-as-biden-vows-to-veto-the-gop-plan

https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/12/minimum-wage-2024/

The Republican Party

mccoymcinerney29 — 2024-03-02 06:04:04 UTC

The Republican Party of years past stood as a pillar against a large and overbearing federal government, pushing for states rights. In modern america The republican party is very pro-corporations and like a larger and more involved government. Current Republican Policies are pushing christian ideologies in schools and in society, Deregulation of corporations and defunding of the IRS, the defence of the 2ed amendment, and the bolstering of the US economy via Natural Gas and Oil.

(The poll is from https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/01/how-republicans-view-climate-change-and-energy-issues/

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/party-affiliation/