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There are more than 2 options you dork
Unfortunately not because of an even worse version of the worst voting system in democracies: Fucked Past the Post.
I honestly don't know how America managed to make a worse two party system than the uk
wait until you see the immense disproportionality of the Hungarian voting system. MMP sounds nice, but the implementation makes it possible for our beloved leader to lose the popular vote and win 2/3 of the Parliament. 48% to 67% of seats. Lovely, eh? That was 2014. Unfortunately our demagogue brainwasher has now convinced 54% of voters the last time. And he won the exact same 2/3 sup.majority.
I really wish there was a way to quantify how dumb a country was in terms of its GDP (not the humans being physically less intelligent, just the culture is stupid even when there is abundant money to fund things) because it would be really fun to watch the US and UK keep fighting neck and neck to be in the lead.
It would be like following a sports rivalry between two unstoppable teams, except the unstoppable aspect is how much everything is stopping from falling apart for no good reason.
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Yeah the 3rd guy believes the attempted armed insurrection that was televised didn't really happen and wasn't armed. And he wants you believe he is anti trump while also telling you Biden is the worse option for democracy. At the same time his leading donor is a major trump supporter and donor. How is Kennedy a 3rd party and not a GOP plant?
Can I nitpick a thing? 01/06 gave me fucking PTSD. I watched for 8-hours that day and can't watch 60-seconds now. I really can't. I can barely glance at a picture. Now I truly know what triggered means.
But those animals weren't "armed" in any sense of the word as we typically understand it. Yes, some had guns "off campus", but they were too pussy to bring 'em.
Anyway, sorry. I'll be the last human on Earth to downplay that day.
If they want to start showing out armed? Aight. Not all liberals are gun shy.
Not if you wish to count in the US. A vote cast to some random is a vote that may as well not have happened in a general election. You're not showing a despite for the 2 party system in the federal general election. The time for that is the off year elections. Successfully get some reps or senators elected, frequently enough, then something may count there. Otherwise, the only real hope for more than 2 choices is to force one of the two parties to collapse.