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Sorry Federalist, it's both parties. Anyone else remember when GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski won her senate race as a WRITE IN candidate after losing the GOP primary to a Tea Party conservative...they like it this way in AK. (thefederalist.com)
posted 3 years ago by Mad_King_Kalak 3 years ago by Mad_King_Kalak +8 / -0
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– Mad_King_Kalak [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Duverger's Law.

In winner take all election systems, you will always default to two parties. Best you can hope for is reforming one, or both, of the parties from within. Or maybe killing one and replacing it.

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It's one of the immutable laws, one of the only ones, of social science, because it is based on a mathematical reality.

The guy with the most votes wins. Therefore, if his opposition is composed of multiple parties, he STILL wins even if the other parties get more votes than him in the aggregate.

The resulting incentive is such that "big tent" parties form.

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If you're not supporting globalhomo and its perpetrators, then it sounds like you're saying you haven't been voting. I did the same for more than 25 years until I went retarded and voted for Zio-Trump. The fact that we vote is why politicians have contempt for us.

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You don't have to vote for anything. I don't give a shit. The odds of a vote meaning anything are less than lightening striking. A single vote is like you yelling in a crowded stadium for a sportsball team...individually it means little, and that's if there isn't voter fraud, which there often is.

All I'm trying to get through your damn skull, is that there will always, always, always, always be two major parties. Even in a proportional representation system, there are two major coalitions for the same reason.

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You silly, silly goose. I said I don't give a shit how you VOTE or NOT VOTE. Try reading it again.

What you're to obstreperous and frankly obtuse to grock, is that systems designed a certain way, through the immutable laws of mathematics (and we are just talking about addition here) mean that no matter what goes on in your mind about how things should be, there have been and will continue to be, two dominant parties.

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