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thundara · 4587 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why does the world's greatest democracy offer just two choices?
Fun fact I learned from a math-inclined friend the other day, the main voting system used in the US is fundamentally flawed and breaks down very quickly as you add more (popular) candidates. Take Gore and Nader in 2000, arguably having an arguably decent alternative and an arguably terrible main democratic candidate caused a vote split between which Bush slid in.
The trouble is also that as you add more choices, it becomes a lot easier for radicals to find their voice. The two-party system
helps silence the tea partiers and anarchists. Wikipedia has a great article on the matter, discussing many alternatives, unfortunately they all suffer from at least a subset of a wide range of problems.