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> If you want to tell me that the population just can create a new party, look how well that works in the US... This is a problem of a particular voting system
by spacechild1 3y ago
> If you want to tell me that the population just can create a new party, look how well that works in the US...
This is a problem of a particular voting system. The majority reprentation system has a very strong tendency towards two party systems. In countries with proportional representation it is significantly easier to create new parties and even rise to power. On the level of local governments this happens all the time. But even on the state level it is definitely possible. Just think of the various green parties in Europe that have been founded in the 1980s and 1990s. Or to give a more recent example: the rise of the AFD in Germany in recent years.