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Wouldn’t this be a fourth party? Edit: ah, “third party” is an expression in American politics. Learning something new every day.
by bkmn 5y ago
Wouldn’t this be a fourth party?
Edit: ah, “third party” is an expression in American politics. Learning something new every day.
- thrill 5y agoAll the non-two-party parties are called third party. This keeps the two-parties front and center, where they think they belong.
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoThe way US elections are run makes it very hard to have anything except two dominant parties. If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains (probably the Democrats since they have more institutional support at the moment).
- thrill 5y agoThis is the natural consequence of our simple-majority single-ballot system. It so strongly favors the two leading parties that getting them to change it is basically impossible.
- JoshTriplett 5y ago> If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains That would still be a massive improvement. Unfortunately, the more likely outcome with our current voting system is to split the vote of whichever party they're aligned more closely with, and cause the other party to win. We desperately need either approval voting or Condorcet voting, so that people can express a meaningful preference for a third party.
- gpm 5y agoI'm curious, what is the 3rd party in your scenario? I can see ways to count > 3 (before this announcement), and obviously there are the two competitive parties so that's a way to count, but it's not obvious to me how you got to exactly 3.
- Kibae 5y agoI'm guessing he was talking about the Libertarian Party.