You’re only able to choose two options, how is that democracy? I thought democracy was about being able to choose anyone you think is suitable to be a leader, not one of two pre-selected people. At that point, it’s not much different to a one-party system, just with two people rather than only one person.
It’s not like the two party system is deliberately chosen or enshrined in law. The field naturally winnows down to two parties because that is basically guaranteed to outcompete every other possibility under a first-past-the-post voting system. You want to fix the two party system, you need to fix our voting system.
Derek from Veritasium also made a great video about the various voting systems and which one seems to be the most democratic: https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk
I hope to someday see a Rated Choice ballot.
This. This. This.
Everyone should watch this. Even people who know about rank choice voting.
fair enough
Yes for some theory about this, see:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
I also love this YouTube video, which covers this extremely well - https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo