Our former governor and former senator say a vote for a candidate on a centrist party’s line would be a powerful and effective way to signal that you favor problem-solving over posturing.
Our former governor and former senator say that sometime in the next several months, the New Jersey Supreme Court will likely decide a monumentally important case – Moderate Party v. New Jersey Division of Elections – that has the potential to reshape and improve politics in America.Few sober observers of America today dispute the view that hyper-partisan extremism is ruining the country.
Other, related trends in our society are making this situation worse. Redistricting and fights over voting rights have become even more fraught because the spoils from winning those battles offer both major parties a crucial edge on an otherwise stalemated political chessboard. And as our politics gets more polarized, more people are choosing to live near other like-minded peers, a “big sort” that then only further exacerbates our divisions.
This wasn’t always so. For the first half of our country’s history, fusion allowed minor parties to form, grow, and build coalitions that enriched our politics. Before the Civil War, people could vote on the line of a minor abolitionist party, like the Liberty Party, for a candidate who was also supported by one of the major parties. In so doing, those voters underlined their support for the abolition of slavery without throwing their vote away on a non-competitive protest candidate.
The systemic benefits of fusion could be substantial, by tempering the destabilizing effects of hyper-polarization and by incentivizing parties and candidates to compete for voters in the middle. But legalizing fusion would also empower the individual voter, especially one frustrated with our two major parties.
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