Four Republican backbencher candidates who failed to qualify for the first 2024 GOP presidential debate this week slammed the Republican National Committee over its rules, with multiple contenders calling them “rigged.”

  • Dr. Bluefall@toast.ooo
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    1 year ago

    The issue I always find in the proposal to ban political parties is: how do you stop people from just reinventing them under a different name?

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It absolutely would happen. Even if we somehow wiped the idea from everyone’s mind, people would start to group up again because it’s simply more effective than going it alone. We learned that as a species a long time ago.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Obviously, you can’t stop people from freely associating (see the First Amendment).

      But that’s not what’s important. What’s important is that the current two major political parties have been given a whole bunch of special privileges that make them quasi-official parts of the government, and all those need to be permanently stripped away.