Political Parties: Crash Course Government and Politics #40 

Try 24

You beat me to it by 4 months goddamnit!

@@hassi44 i was about to say that lmao!!

Rather: hold my milkshake.

@@stanleysmith7551 cant forget the concrete

Elizabeth Warren: "hold my beer" lol

I'm a highschool senior and I HIGHLY relate

Same

One year later and this highschool senior is doing the exact same thing.

simplymaci right before my final that’s at 10:30 today.. 2 years later. College life never changes

@@hollyehelmsjenkins3410 my final is tomorrow morning and I haven't studied a single word yet oops

me too!

Yeah even those 2 party popper things were kind of depressing.

+Evdog Music its not really the FPTP system per se that makes it impossible for 3rd parties (every other country that uses FPTP has 3rd parties that have some representation although it is skewed towards the larger parties). Rather its the burdensome ballot requirements, gerrymandering, and the electoral college (which is an extreme form of FPTP) that is unique to the United States

+Evdog Music In the current system, making your own party actually hurts the party you disagree the least with

+Nathan Swigg 3rd Party in FPTP is the reason we got Bush.

+megasonicgeo perhaps but that election was so close that there were 100's of things that could have changed the outcome

Nathan Swigg Such as not having Jeb as a governor?

That's so true

+Shawn Ravenfire That's ok, I'm registered as neither of the big parties. I literally don't have anything to vote on on primary day unless there are other issues on the ballot (as there was here during the '08 primary). On top of that, come election day, due to the fact that I have strong problems with both major parties' platforms, the best vote I can ever cast is for the candidate I disagree with the least. Such are the problems many of us face due to the various ballot access restrictions both major parties have put in place in essentially every state in the union.

+Shawn Ravenfire voting as a democrat in a primary is probably moot anyway since the party has super-delegates. Your vote gets obliterated 10,000 times over.

George Kyriakou Also true.

+Shawn Ravenfire I appreciate your viewpoint because you wished to vote for the candidate you liked most in both parties, unfortunately most people would use the opportunity to attempt to sabotage the party that they liked the least.

that is... pretty accurate to craig.

That's only for the primaries. In the general election, you can vote for whomever you want.

You don't have to register. The only reason to register is to vote in primaries

+Krombopulos Michael yes but only in certain states In some states with open primaries the majority of voters are independent

+minimooster When there are open primaries or caucuses (like it is in WA, where I live) people don't have to register with your chosen party. You can just go to the caucus and announce that JUST FOR that caucus you are blah blah partuy

+minimooster lol policies, that would nice. it's a binary choice most of the time; welfare or no welfare, war or no war. at least thats how it's phrased, very rarely do parties fulfill their promises (or even really seem to try, though that might be a perspective thing).

A bad VP candidate can ruin a candidate's chances. Sarah Palin is a perfect example.

Yeah, just befriended a presidential candidate, get them to pick you as VP and then murder them. It worked for Johnson.

+Krombopulos Michael Then just get the CIA to help you assassinate the President, like Johnson did, and you're now the leader of the free world.

+The Secular Poptart then we dont get majority rule. 3 parties split the vote so a mere 34% decide the policy. 51% is much more acceptable

+The Secular Poptart Blame it on the first-past-the-post voting system...

+The Secular Poptart we have more that two. its just that Republican and Democrat have the most people in them

+The Secular Poptart We do. What we need is a voting system which makes sense with more than 2 parties.

+SchiferlED yes

+Master Therion yeah if Donald Trump was in my party I'd cry too!

Melanie martinez my baby

MELANIE!!!!

+Blair Proctor if a baby murdering lying racist psychopath was in my party, I'd switch to the Republican Party :) Clinton for prison.

LESLIE GORE!!!!

If they deny scientific facts one can make an arguement that it does

Spencer L. In that case I suppose, yes. But I'm speaking about instances when that isn't the case, where people are just being stubborn. This seems to happen a lot.

Exactly. Which is why we need to ban political parties and cure those who still believe that non sense.

Not necessarily. Political parties can be helpful, but during this election season both sides turned incredibly nasty towards each other. Banning political parties won't stop people from taking sides. What we need desperately is to control ourselves, and to look for compromise. My biggest problem that was common between both major party candidates this election, was that both stood way too far to one side. Of course I had other problems and concerns about them as well. But I knew that no matter who won, half the country was going to be severely ticked off. So I voiced my call for compromise and an end to the nonsense. But of course, practically no one listened.

Apparently we have been created to evolve without the need for them.

wawaluigi party- WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHOOOA

Every year, someone should comment on this. So here i go!

Political parties divide people. Most political parties are corrupt

My contribution to the yearly comment.

I'll be back in 7 months to say my part.

@gilgamesh2399 Thank you for the warning! :)

Will do

+Holobrine But you don't elect only a candidate. His/her team will be composed by people of his/her party.

+Holobrine My science teacher is currently teaching civics to the 7th graders because there was nobody else who was able to fill in for our civics teacher who left for the year. In the beginning of the year, the students' assignment was to take the ISideWith test to see who they would best end up voting for. You could hear from across the hall all the kids yelling about how they're not Democrats and how they're Republican by heart and blood (because political party genes exist, y'know...) and how the test was all wrong. *Sigh* some people will never learn...

History of USA freedom

"crash course"

Set the video speed to 0.5

Haha I've gotten to the point where I can listen at 2.0 and understand all of it. I had practice with Hank in Bio.

+GodzillaFanForever 1 Your expectations are impossibly high!

+GodzillaFanForever 1 how dare you bring logic into politics!!!!!

HOW DARE YOU! LOGIC HAS NO PLACE IN POLITICS

+Lokiwintersoldier he has a point.

It depends on the party!

I only hate the Democrat Party.

*cough* *cough* Hillary

+Craze Phil Please define as specific as possible what "The Establishment" is

Dr.Voctor The dominating group inside of the party who hold the most amount of offices. They are very moderate and also weak towards the GOP. But just like the GOP establishment the democratic one is also extremely corrupt (just look at Hillary) and follow their large money donors like puppies so the large corporations can profit and the top 1% can destroy the middle class.

Ok thank you for clarifying what you meant. When I look at Republicans I see this www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/images/ahydra.gif and when I look at democrats I see this graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/06/us/06senate2-600.jpg

It should be bern vs Ben. So we can get rid of power hungry extremists

Quicker responsiveness to myself option

k

Probably cause they party of our money

I'm just letting you know I'm stealing this joke one day (hope I remember it), because it's so painfully true

PS: Nobody’s taking away our “25 Rolls Royce’s” but WE MORALLY OWE (Just our “Greedy” 26th Rolls & up) BACK TO OUR STABLE SOCIETY (that “Owns & Allows” us to Create & Safely use our “25 Rolls”) TO KEEP IT STABLE!! We must Realize Nobody gets Rich without our “Fast Food Workers” who ironically Need “Food Stamps” for Stability!! No one is lazy & “Reaping Free Benefits off the Rich’s Money” because the GREEDY PART BELONGS to all of us!! Read Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic & SPIRIT of Capitalism” where, early on, Wealth was only a Moral pursuit just to achieve our limited “State of Grace” & then we stopped so others could also achieve their monetary “Salvation” Watch “The Gods Must Be Crazy” where a “Coke bottle” falls from a plane into the midst of a primitive tribe & one guy grabs it & everyone fears him for grabbing ALL the “Money” & now being their “King”!! In "Direct Democracy" we vote directly for issues that we've tested for merit, etc before proposal, then we popularly enact them & then Voter Volunteers will easily enforce small & specific Laws that have all the "legal standards" for enforcement in them ... congress, senate, president, agencies, courts, etc have a role to play, but within it & in service to it ...

Yes, it should be a dictatorial one party system, them we will truly be United. MHUHAHAHAHAH

ayyyy

Constitutional conservative here, but close enough.

I'm a libertarian.

Sparsh Kumar conservative but close enough

I'm a libertarian and an Indian. Deal with that.

pretty much lmao.

How can u be a libertarian and socialist at the same time

+Hasset Anteneh by recognising the fact that both governments and corporations are detrimental to the individual's freedom

+George Mills-Burrows but libertarians believe in small government with no government help socialist believe in bug government that helps level the paying field not very comparable bro

+George Mills-Burrows But how can you have socialism without a strong central government?

+Daniel Wallace theoretically you can still have a small government and keep down large corporations from accumulating a disproportionate amount of wealth if businesses are managed by co-operatives/unions. sort of an 'anarcho-syndicalism lite' I guess

Warren has said that she would absolutely not run for vice-president.

+Tyrone Biggums Sanders said he isn't going to get the nomination. Well, he didn't say that but he might as well.

+MiddleClass SeaBass funny considering he's doing better then Obama was in the polls

+MiddleClass SeaBass He said the complete opposite

MegaOopla Yeah, that's why I said he didn't say that. Bernie has some good ideas but he is too weak. Hilary is a much stronger person. I voted for Obama twice but this time around none of the democratic candidates are any good. The leading republican candidates are all better than Rick Perry and Romney was last time around.

+hereLiesThisTroper Because a government mandated party don't stop?

+avoisin based on history they stop often

+hereLiesThisTroper because the Communist Party keeps splitting into smaller and smaller sects!?

+hereLiesThisTroper What about the Nazi Party?

+Bert the Human *National Socialist German Workers' Party, your profiling slurs offend me.

I am glad to see that there are more people who now show intolerance towards political parties.

They are completely unnecessary groups, and they need to be dismantled.

That degree does not exist

Lmao I feel bad for you if your public school is that expensive.

Yup. By taxing all of us to death :)

+Andrew Jackson Alien Slayer are you uber rich?

JJ Keller Even if we aren't rich we will still be taxed to death.

You mean anarcho communism? Nice meeting you fellow comrade.

Yes hello comrade

Alan Vuong Wish I could. *Looks to canada and how handsome Justin Trudeau is*

+Martin Stringer Yes, every kid on the block knows about those videos. People won't shut up about it, they just repeat everything he says like he's some sort of god. His videos have a very biased slant to them.

Me! State entitlement and high stupid regulations are destroying jobs.

+Joseph Ang Right so if negotiating a living wage is forcing business to seek cheaper labour, how are they being patriots? They're traitor.

+The Plebeian Don't like your wage? Go to school, and get a real profession.

that means your a fascist theocrat. all republicans are fascist theocrats

+Lauren Allison Shot in the dark says you're a minority here. Conservative presence isn't super strong on sites that don't facilitate like mindedness.

+lyall reed gtfo fascist

+lyall reed No, I prefer freedom. MURICA

Communist anyone... No wait MURICA

+lyall reed we had a Nationalist Socialist party in Catalonia, it was Nationalist because it wanted to break the region away from Spain and start a republic, and it was Socialist because they supported social policies and unions and the like.

No