The Case for the United States becoming a Parliamentary Government

Just Kidding

How we pick presidential candidates is seriously flawed. All too often we are left with voting for the lesser of two evils.

The fault is in our Presidential primary system. The system as it stands consigns the greater America to a choice pretty much pre-determined without our consent.

Gallup says the declared makeup of the American electorate is:

Republicans: 26%

Democrats: 27%

Independents: 43%

There are more of us than them

Only Republicans and Democrats get to pick the candidates that 43% get to choose from.

But wait it gets worse.

In 2016, only 14.8% of Republicans voted in the primaries and 14.4% of Democrats. Those who vote in primaries are the party faithful, usually those with hard and set political positions.

Often more on historical party themes rather than current issues. Or put another way, they want historical party themes applied to current issues.

Roughly 14% of each party pick who the remaining 72% get to vote for or against.