• rockerface 🇺🇦
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    44 months ago

    The whole 2 parties thing isn’t even in the constitution tho, is it? I’m not American so I might not be as familiar with the details

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      The voting system makes it so the system will always tend toward two parties. Parties aren’t in the constitution at all. That’s where you get occasional independent candidates

    • Schadrach
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      74 months ago

      No, parties and primaries (which are just parties borrowing election infrastructure to choose who they support) aren’t in the Constitution at all. But first past the post voting always trends towards two party systems as a stable equilibrium.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 months ago

      It’s not. We’ve had third parties before, and we do still occasionally have independents take seats in congress(we have 3 currently)

      They’ll never be even close to majority though, and they will never take the presidency.