Do Americans want a multiple party system?
March 1, 2016 10:09 AM Subscribe
The U.S presidential election news are now, more than ever, being distributed across various nations around the world with quite regularity. Some of us wonder if U.S citizens want a different party system with all the talk here and in other places on the internet about how the current one doesn't address their concerns well enough.
With the hubbub of the whole process of U.S presidential election being broadcasted all over the world and talks about Trump and his trumpiness permeate urban spaces even in non-English speaking places (because they often transcend language barriers), some of us who live in not-Europe and not-US often wonder about the two-party system that you guys have.
Sure, the multiple party system could be easily abused by high-profile figures to carve their own niches without necessarily bringing sizable benefits to the people like in here (Indonesia) or in the case of Russia resulted in one party conquering the political arena and other parties there basically kowtowing the ruling one. Despite all that, we (college students from many countries studying at the same place) kind of agree that the two-party system that the U.S have is a rather reductive one in term of actually representing the various interests that Americans have. At least, that's what we thought.
I'm not asking about the history of the two-party system (but it'd be nice to know tidbits about it) but your current opinions; do you want it, is it possible, do you think it's better or worse than the alternatives?
With the hubbub of the whole process of U.S presidential election being broadcasted all over the world and talks about Trump and his trumpiness permeate urban spaces even in non-English speaking places (because they often transcend language barriers), some of us who live in not-Europe and not-US often wonder about the two-party system that you guys have.
Sure, the multiple party system could be easily abused by high-profile figures to carve their own niches without necessarily bringing sizable benefits to the people like in here (Indonesia) or in the case of Russia resulted in one party conquering the political arena and other parties there basically kowtowing the ruling one. Despite all that, we (college students from many countries studying at the same place) kind of agree that the two-party system that the U.S have is a rather reductive one in term of actually representing the various interests that Americans have. At least, that's what we thought.
I'm not asking about the history of the two-party system (but it'd be nice to know tidbits about it) but your current opinions; do you want it, is it possible, do you think it's better or worse than the alternatives?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey sorry, this is chatfilter. There are a bunch of past Metafilter threads about the two party system and alternatives that might be of interest to you, though. -- LobsterMitten
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I rather wish that Republicans hadn't embraced Tea Party folks so much, now there's no honest discourse and compromise, as there was in the past, but rather posturing and stubbornness.
Used to be that Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson would get behind a closed door, swear like sailors, and come out with something they could each live with.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 10:12 AM on March 1, 2016