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Written by Ulrik Nyman ⬡ on 2025-01-29 at 18:37

This sentiment "Effectively, that’s all any country has" about the two party system of the USA, seems so stupid that I have a hard time grasping that you can utter it!

It is probably because you are never introduced to any other type of election system?

Remember that Canadas system is just as broken even though they have more parites. "Canada's electoral system is a "first-past-the-post" system, which is formally referred to as a single-member plurality system."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_electoral_system

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Written by Extra_Special_Carbon on 2025-02-04 at 11:02

@UlrikNyman AOC and Nancy Pelosi would not be in the same party under your system. Yet, they both get seats to represent in our legislature. Rather than six or seven parties, we have primaries.

Any election system based on most votes ends up that way.

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Written by Ulrik Nyman ⬡ on 2025-02-04 at 11:29

@Extra_Special_Carbon

Yes, the point is that you need to change the election system

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Written by Extra_Special_Carbon on 2025-02-04 at 11:43

@UlrikNyman I agree on that. But I think the effect of primaries is often neglected in these “two party” system discussions. The Democratic Party covers a wide range of views and which sub-party gets represented is decided there.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think most parliamentary systems have primaries. Literally, anyone can run in a primary for any party if they can get enough signatures. I admit, I don’t know how parliamentary candidates get picked.

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Written by Ulrik Nyman ⬡ on 2025-02-04 at 11:47

@Extra_Special_Carbon New parties can be formed very easily and have been in the Danish system over the last couple of decades several times.

The parties pick who they are running. In almost all of the parties this is done by local elections in the districts, by the party members.

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Written by Extra_Special_Carbon on 2025-02-04 at 11:52

@UlrikNyman It sounds a lot like our system with different labels.

If we had six or seven parties, then the left would get outflanked by the Republicans every time. They vote as a solid block just because they have an R in front of their name on the ballot.

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Written by Ulrik Nyman ⬡ on 2025-02-04 at 11:57

@Extra_Special_Carbon But with a multi party system they would not all be the same party.

Trump would only have captured one of the right wing parties, not all of the block at once.

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