Crash course US politics

@MoveAlong no alternatives! Just this bipartisan coalition of genocide and wars! Americans don't even think about alternatives! Show the world. You're online and only war bipartisan war forever for all of y'all! Big bulls eye on the Murka! Bigly make people ready to hate you! Bigly.

@Elessar You're not wrong, but again, if enough people here or there decide they want something (third party or whatever), then it happens. We hold the power. We have just chosen as a group to cede our power to politicians. 😔

@sarabee1995 Nah, I was answering for why I third party isn't viable. You'd need at least one of the main two bleed enough to lose at least 51% its voter base, in first past the post. And then you need all those people to agree joining the third party (and not a fourth, fifth, etc.), and then win against the party that is left.

That's exceptionally difficult in normal times (before TV and the internet), basically impossible with the entire modern media industry deeply invested into discouraging any such effort.

In the entire US history, correct me if I'm wrong, it happened only once with the Whig party.

@sarabee1995 It's relatively easier to first change the electoral law (not saying necessarily to a whole proportional system, but at the very least a ranked choice system like Alaska's), and then spin up a third party, than hope a third party topples one or both the existing ones.

Though I don't see the electoral law changing being any realistic in the given status quo, and even less so a third party to get anywhere close to the 51% of electoral college votes required to win

@1490wayb when there's universal suffrage and only two parties, the population is one hundred percent accountable for the deaths globally,! And now unprovoked attacks will be risked as you liars keep killing bipartisanly.

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout and a country that pretends it doesn't count to three. Americans guilty, and the rest appreciating that with seven billion people.

@RisingMorningStar7 exactly! Never have a third way, staying licked by evil is your way! The world thinks you want these results and so do I! You'd have a third party if you weren't all good with it all.