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[–] 47 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

*electoral system

Because of FPTP and the Winner Take All Electoral College, there is a lot of political pressure to only have 2 parties. In a better system (proportional, ranked choice, etc) it wouldn't break with more than two parties. In fact just reforming the electoral college to be proportional would likely allow 3 parties to exist.

If you look at history the last time there was a viable 3rd party it possibly initiated the civil war by allowing an anti slavery viewpoint to exist (which is good, but if we'd had a better voting system it would have happened earlier and reduced a lot of suffering)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass when he hopped.

    We have FPTP, and we'll have it until I'm cold and dead in the ground.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    even republican-ass alaska passed RCV.

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