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Not to rain on your parade here, but a multi-party system isn't paradise either. I'm not saying the duopoly is better, but multi-party systems are plagued with
by wlievens 17y ago
Not to rain on your parade here, but a multi-party system isn't paradise either. I'm not saying the duopoly is better, but multi-party systems are plagued with immobility, compromise for the sake of compromise, and lack of differentiation. Any European cynic will repeat that for you.
- bradbeattie 17y agoSimilar things could be said when moving from despotism to a democracy. No system's perfect, but some are demonstratively better than others.
- ericd 17y agoI didn't say that I wanted a 3+ party system, the biggest advantage would be that you wouldn't get a situation where voting for your favorite candidate screws over your close second favorite but much more likely to win candidate, as happened with Gore in 2000 when a percentage of his would-be supporters voted for Nader instead.