Why Is The Election Season So Long?

[Motorcity]

Any system that requires multiple non-simultaneous elections for the same office is going to have long campaign seasons. In this way it's actually the primaries and their existence that is to blame. They'd be wholly unnecessary if we used a better voting system that didn't fail the independence of irrelevant alternatives criterion like Score Voting.

Because of the primaries. I say let all 57 contests occur on the same day with only party members. Use raw vote count.

[Motorcity]

It would be nice if at least there were no ads, fund raising, or political activity of any kind allow 367 days in advance of the general election.  At least give us three years of peace.  Over my life I have watched the campaign season for the presidency grow, until now it stretches from one election day to almost the other (4 years apart).  It has become the new "reality tv".  I miss the mid 90s when hardly anyone cared about politics, hahahaha.

People not caring about politics led to the destruction of labor unions, the welfare safety net, deregulation of banks, income inequality, higher cost of living, free trade agreements, rise of the gig economy, the drug war, private prisons, invading Iraq etc.

If you think hard about it, nearly every bad thing about the United States can be traced to the general population becoming less civic minded