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There are few things fascists hate as much as antifascist coalitions (lemmy.world)

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[–] instantnudeln@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The American electoral system more or less ensures there can never be more than 2 competitive parties in any given election.

Wait. So even with a larger amount of Votes on a 3rd Party, they would only allow the two biggest Parties in the Congress? I hope I just totally understood you wrong. Because if that's what you just said, then this is REALLY undemocratic.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago

No, I’m saying that the system prevents this from happening in the first place. If it ever did, the third party would then become one of the dominant two parties from that point forward. This last happened with the Republican Party replacing the Whig Party in the 1850s, so it is a very uncommon occurrence.