Open the Debates founder Eli Beckerman joined Independent Voter‘s Shawn Griffiths for a conversation about the prospects of opening up the political system in the wake of impeachmentgate.
This episode of Toppling the Duopoly was dubbed “Bipartisan Collusion: The Two-Party Schemes that Kill Political Competition”, and it took a step outside the oversimplified binary box that has framed too much of the political discourse and political reality in the United States.
What is missing from the conversation are the schemes both parties use to kill political competition in the US — from rigged primaries to partisan gerrymandering to exclusionary debate rules.
