I’m not a US citizen and I don’t remember mentioning it in this thread.
That’s not what one-party system means. The US is in principle a many-party system, but because of how their system works it means that voting anything that isn’t one of the 2 top parties means throwing away your vote. Making it a functionally 2-party system, which is way more democratic than a 1-party system.
1-party = voters have no choice, therefore that one party can do whatever they want.
2-party = there is some choice. There’s an “in power” party and one opposition. The opposition acts as a limit of what the “in power” party can do, because if people are unhappy, they’ll vote for the opposition.
Sure, you can’t choose what kind of opposition they want, which most of the times leads to a “least bad” voting. But you still have a way to influence government.
Having some choice >>>> having no choice.
I never 2-party is enough democracy, but it is still way more than 1-party. It’s not just a 2x increase. “Democracy” doesn’t scale linearly with the amount of parties.
The US is effectively a one-party system as well, because the rest of the world gets fucked over either way you guys vote.
I’m not a US citizen and I don’t remember mentioning it in this thread.
That’s not what one-party system means. The US is in principle a many-party system, but because of how their system works it means that voting anything that isn’t one of the 2 top parties means throwing away your vote. Making it a functionally 2-party system, which is way more democratic than a 1-party system.
If you think a two party system is “way more” democratic than a one party system, there’s nothing else worth discussing with you.
1-party = voters have no choice, therefore that one party can do whatever they want. 2-party = there is some choice. There’s an “in power” party and one opposition. The opposition acts as a limit of what the “in power” party can do, because if people are unhappy, they’ll vote for the opposition.
Sure, you can’t choose what kind of opposition they want, which most of the times leads to a “least bad” voting. But you still have a way to influence government.
Having some choice >>>> having no choice.
I never 2-party is enough democracy, but it is still way more than 1-party. It’s not just a 2x increase. “Democracy” doesn’t scale linearly with the amount of parties.