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Why does the USA have only 2 political parties?
i don't get it, how can a democracy of 300 million have only 2 political parties?! how can 2 parties, very similar to each other, represent all those ppl, 5 major racial groups, several religions, diff ethnic groups, etc. any demo shld have at least 3 parties, not 2. pakistan has an alliance of parties ruling it. even tiny netherlands has 5, so how come america has only 2? im begg to think it's a setup, rigged sys. voters are made to choose betw mike and michael, with cosmetic diff betw the 2 played up. and the world is taught to follow their example? hmmm....
im referring to major political parties here, not minor/unknown ones. any democracy shld have at least 3 serious contenders for every seat. ppl like ralph nader and ross perot don't count as serious contenders IMO.
Americans are born and raised into a culture of no real choice with a bad media subservient to power that doesn't inform, enlightens, educates the public or really challenges political leaders or talks about the issues but is actively involved in keeping the public confused and misdirected. The media is all about sensationalism and that gets sold as political news and debate. They hop from non issue to non issue to hype to overblown incident and that's sold as political news. It's no wonder after being born in that culture and having lived there forever Americans don't know better. Much like an incest victim they believe it's normal because they know nothing else and are constantly brainwashed for decades day in day out from all sides, the US is the freest country in the world.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
In other countries you can blame people who don't vote but in the American system it really doesn't make sense to vote if your state has no chance of being a swing state. If you're red in a certain blue state your vote doesn't count and the other way around.
Half of half of the mature population is enough to win the election, that's not representative government. The USA is not a free country.
Of those few thinking far enough to reject the duopoly too many still seem to think it can be broken if just the right person runs as a third party candidate which is a naive a mistake. The reason is the many legal burdens the duopoly has put into place and the enormous power they yield that make many potential voters feel a third party vote is wasted, often they are right. Virtually all levels of government whether it's local , state or federal, any position of power in the US is held by a Democrat or a Republican. They are just fine with the current situation and hold all power.
This is an issue where many who want to see the duopoly abolished go off track in my view. Too many Americans who reject the two party charade continue to believe one candidate, if it's just the right one, will be able to break the system and fundamentally change it. I believe that's naive, the two party system is that organized, no one candidate ,by running alone, can turn it around and make it into a mature democracy. No one candidate can change a corrupt system by simply participating in it. Structural changes are absolutely necessary first.
Most Americans don't know these facts about the electoral process:
*It takes 675,000 petition signatures for an independent or minor party presidential candidate to get on the ballot in all 50 states -- that is 26 times the number needed by a Democratic presidential candidate.
*Requirements for a minor party candidate to get on the ballot increased tenfold from 1930 to 1980 -- while the U.S. population increased only two times.
*Discriminatory filing fees hit only independent or minor party candidates.
*Sky-high signature requirements exist in many states. Examples: California -- 140,149 (in 15 weeks); Oklahoma -- 58,552; Maryland -- 69,500; North Carolina -- 43,601.
Besides these huge signature requirements, there are many obstacles to voter registration, particularly evident against Blacks and Hispanics. All of these are barriers to ballot access. They consume the limited resources of alternative parties and independents and leave them with little with which to carry on effective communication with the voting public.
When independents and minor parties do manage to get on the ballot, the major media studiously ignores them. There are no "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation" network shows for these candidates.
Few alternative parties have access to the massive funds, private or public, to enable them to buy time in the electronic media or space in print publications to state their case to the voters. Thus, they may get on the ballot in some states, but they can't get a broad hearing to advance their views.
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