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Reposting this meme because is too radical for 196 apparently

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[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Can someone please explain? Does the US only have two political parties? That sounds horrendously undemocratic. I know next to nothing about US politics so I may be wrong.

Edit: Also, why is one party called "Democratic" and the other "Republican"? Does this make the Republican party non-democratic? Is this a non-official naming scheme that people created or does seriously only one of them support democracy? Thank you for the answers :)

[–] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. Get rid of gerrymandering by forcing convex districts
  2. Get rid of first past the post
[–] MudMan@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago

I can't imagine anybody in the US would advocate for the nonsense in the OP above ruthlessly, relentlessly campaigning for this instead.

It's like they're cosplaying at politics.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

Put simply - we have two parties, both are right wing, and while we have an established way for third parties to gain more proper/fair inclusion in the system (like debate participation, ballot access, in some cases funding) anytime a third party comes close to meeting the requirements the 2 parties mutually agree to raise the bar.