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Democracies tend to gravitate towards a binary choice, regardless of the actual number of parties. This happens all the time in Europe. Don't mistake the fact
by mseebach 14y ago
Democracies tend to gravitate towards a binary choice, regardless of the actual number of parties. This happens all the time in Europe.
Don't mistake the fact that we have social policies different from those in the US for diversity, it is very much a cross-party consensus.
- w1ntermute 14y agoI never suggested that we should imitate Europe, did I? That would lead to even worse economic problems than we already have. I just think that we need to introduce more competition so that the parties are forced to compete on concrete goals and actions, rather than lofty ideals that are more suited to a sports match (which is what American politics often feels like).
- mseebach 14y agoNo, I was reacting to this: > As long as we have only 2 parties, they will have no incentive to do anything different from one another. In Europe, there are many more parties, but that doesn't make politics less of a two-team sports match. My point was that you've identified the wrong culprit in the two-party system.