Two parties is a design flaw of first past the post. There can be regional parties, and occasionally re-alignment elections, but the natural outcome of single member first past the post elections is two big-tent parties with roughly 50% of the seats each.
You need proportional representation or multi-member districts to have more than two stable parties.
GOP should have been banned from American politics already.
We’re never should have fallen to two parties like Washington and other founders warned against.
Two parties is a design flaw of first past the post. There can be regional parties, and occasionally re-alignment elections, but the natural outcome of single member first past the post elections is two big-tent parties with roughly 50% of the seats each.
You need proportional representation or multi-member districts to have more than two stable parties.