> What is it about our current American society that leads to basically a 50-50 split in registered voters? It's the late stage of a first-past-the-post electo

> What is it about our current American society that leads to basically a 50-50 split in registered voters? It's the late stage of a first-past-the-post electoral system. Because FPTP is winner takes all voters cannot make a decision based on their political beliefs, they HAVE to vote tactically to make a vote count. Extreme external factors aside, the system itself is destined to create only two parties with any chance of gaining to power. FPTP is of a time when local politics mattered far more as people traveled less and knew less about issues outside their local area. What a politician could do for your local town/state was of more importance than what was playing out at the national level. Now people want to see their their own individual beliefs represented in the federal government because since the internet supercharged communication everything seems like it plays out at a national level. Two parties cannot represent everyone, but voters are forced into this choice.