Here's my hot take: as long as voting is not mandatory (with the ability to go to a poll and officially "abstain") all democracies will eventually spoil. The in

Here's my hot take: as long as voting is not mandatory (with the ability to go to a poll and officially "abstain") all democracies will eventually spoil. The incentive to manipulate with voter suppression is just too high. Look no further than the United States if you're from there. A third party simply accelerates this by fracturing the already abysmal electorate. However mandatory voting isn't sufficient. The abolition of FPTP (winner takes all) is also necessary. Inequality (and not necessarily just income) is only accelerating the flaws in anything other than pure-democracy. TLDR: true democracy will never exist without something like mandatory score/range/star/etc voting. yeah I know the USA isn't a pure democracy. perhaps that's the issue.