You guys are all wrong. The two party system actually functions as a filter to many political ideas that both the Democrats and the Republicans want anything to do with. You see, basically every vote on another party is a vote thrown away. That is something that most Americans are aware off, so they will limit them selves to these two.

So for most Americans, there are only two realistic options. Either Republicans or the Democrats and since they offer quite the same package, you guys have to pick the lesser of two evils. And that my American friends, is not democracy. And that is what a lot of Americans that voted said. They picked the lesser of two evils.

This is not democracy. In a true democracy a lot of parties are represented and also a lot of different political views. Socialist views, Christian democratic views, conservative views, and liberal views. Also they all stand a chance of success (in mainland Europe this is the case), since they started out with a lot of parties. The US however stated with two parties.

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