What if American had more than two parties? What would politics look like if the two party system was actually a multi-party system? How might an American mu...
America does have more than two political parties. The problem isn’t the number of parties, it’s the FPTP voting system combined with the EC and the lack of proportional representation.
All of which effectively means that we have two parties, because no serious candidate is going to run outside if those parties when they know the system is engineered to ensure only those parties actually matter.
That’s mostly a side-effect of the voting system though. I don’t think serious candidates are going to run as 3rd party in a jurisdiction where a 3rd party has no chance of winning.
America does have more than two political parties. The problem isn’t the number of parties, it’s the FPTP voting system combined with the EC and the lack of proportional representation.
All of which effectively means that we have two parties, because no serious candidate is going to run outside if those parties when they know the system is engineered to ensure only those parties actually matter.
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That’s mostly a side-effect of the voting system though. I don’t think serious candidates are going to run as 3rd party in a jurisdiction where a 3rd party has no chance of winning.