Gegen das Zweiparteiensystem
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidmoscrop/p/against-the-two-party-system?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1j3aab
Gegen das Zweiparteiensystem
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidmoscrop/p/against-the-two-party-system?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1j3aab
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A multi party system will emerge when moderate conservatives recover their character and divorce from reform maple maga types.
Until then its conservatives vs everyone else, being 100% a product of how conservatives treat everyone else.
Maybe the 5th humiliating election loss in a row will be enough.
I didn’t read past the “get the app to continue reading” bullshit, so maybe the article explains this, but the two party system is wholly an artifact of first past the post, which is NOT a mathematically fair voting system. That’s why countries that have ditched FPTP in favour of proportional representation are typically governed by coalitions that accurately represent the electorate. Instead, we get false majorities.
Don’t want to get locked into a 2-party system?
Reform your voting system with an element of proportional Representation, like New Zealand did.
Otherwise, essentially you turn into the United States. It’s called [Duverger’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law), and it is inevitable over time.
The fact that Canada has largely resisted the ultimate, dysfunctional fate of a two-party lock on power for so long is a testament to Canada’s polity (voter pool) itself, but this multi-party representation is coming to a close now.