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It’s true if you live in some states, OK.
Bull. Go try www.isidewith.com/ and see for yourself just how once you cut it down to issues and policies, the qualitative differences between the major candidates becomes clear.
I personally can’t compromise enough to even draw remotely close to the Republican party while I get 88% Stein and 82% Obama on my first\optimal run.
My sister on the other hand is a strong Republican voter and she got all her candidates all lined up with 2% differences but again nothing remotely similar to a Democrat.
The two-party system works just fine for me. And I don’t see any real, sane, single issue that will make me support an alternative candidate.
If Stein is a better fit for you(88% vs 82%), then the two party system is preventing a candidate who is more in line with your views from gaining traction. So a two party system actually hurts the quality of available candidates.
I liken it to the free market: When there is more competition, competitors will need to improve their products/services. Right now what we’ve got it an oligarchy.
Its actually not that surprising, and not because you guys are doomed in any way but because two parties trying to capture the average voter are going to look much like each other.
Good to see Obama listed as a moderate-right wing authoritarian. Finally something accurate, not the standard line of how he is a commie/socialist.
I’m not sure what the downturn in the two-party system is.
I presently live in a country here in Europe with 26 parties on the ballot… sorting it out is a nightmare. Everything from “Be Kind to Animals Party” to “No Sex on Sundays Party” and of course the 8 top major parties to make things easier for the brain-dead… in the end you have governments that are full of compromises and the lines so blurred it doesn’t matter whether you have a Prime-Minister (president) or not… and nothing fucking gets done.
In Germany, every election they have a guy that represents the “new” Communist party and he and many of his representatives get in the Bundestag (congress) because he’s the one that makes the most sense. Many vote for him but nobody wants Germany to become a Communist country… like Ron Paul, he makes really good sense, but nobody wants another Republican from Texas again.
My present country I work in now (Belgium) holds the record in history of literally going without a Prime-Minister for almost two years.
When Joe Redneck from Backward Junction can explain the Electoral College System in American elections then you should try changing it – the two party system may not be perfect but I’ve seen the alternative… you don’t want it.
And politics in a two-party system aren’t full of compromise? For the last four years I’ve been hearing quite a lot about how Obama can’t do this or that the way he wants to because he doesn’t have the necessary majority in congress.
I have no idea why it took Belgium so long to get it’s shit together but conflict between the Flemish and the Walloons seems to be one of the main reasons.
In Germany we may have 27 parties on the ballot but not all of them in every state and since 19 of them didn’t even get 2.5% of the votes between them and another two didn’t make the 5% threshold, we have five parties in parliament. The government has a stable majority and making decisions doesn’t take the government much longer than in the US or UK.
The next election will possibly see a new party in parliament while another might not make the 5% threshold this time.
I don’t see why a party shouldn’t have seats in parliament if they get a reasonable amount of votes in the election.
And “The Left” and their candidates got about 11% of the votes in the last federal election and are the fourth party of the five in the parliament. Obviously only 11% of the voters think that Gysi and Lafontaine make the most sense. Only very few people are really afraid that Germany will turn to communism if The Left is part of a Federal Government coalition.
dumshit chart is dumb
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