but just because there’s one party doesn’t mean there isn’t debate or democracy within that party. Does anyone here seriously think the electoral discourse would be any worse off in say, the USA, if people had to actually weigh up individual candidates positions and policies, rather than writing “blue = good, red = bad” (or vice versa) on their hand in permanent marker and letting that decide for them for their entire political life?
Multiple parties just devolves into this team sport horse race bullshit
They will, however, jerk themselves off about how Geroge Washington was right about not having political parties, which is somehow different from a single party state.
In the next breath, they will long for the dissolution of the Republican Party. Then in the next breath they will chide the left over one party states, as if the American left were in any position to assume such power.