I think it just makes the illusion stronger without changing anything in effect. Looking at Europe from the outside it seems like most of the time there are two major coalitions that act as hyper-parties in multi-party parliaments. So it's basically just a two party system made up of special snowflake interest clubs.
It's even worse than that. Take all the in-fighting you see on the left and imagine they actually had a "real" party instead of just being the Communists vs the Socialists vs the Entrenched Cronies.
Take all the hate they direct at the conservatives and imagine power the media would hold to show that "4 out of five parties think the fifth one is acting racist."
Take all the Mitt Romney's and imagine how much capitulating they would do to keep that from being said about them.
Now take all the capitulating the uniparty does behind closed doors, and realize that the most expedient thing for the Mitt Romney's to do is to side with some of the liberal parties against the other liberal parties in order to form a "coalition government." (A literal uniparty with actual paperwork.) And to do so they have to gain points with voters other than straight conservatives by pushing policies that mirror the other parties and pushing back against any policies that their own voter base wants if they are "too controversial."
And that's how Canada has five flavors of Communism.
I don't know about that. I think corruption is corruption. Any system with "parties", whether 2 or 10, just needs enough palms greased to fuck over the little guy. Countries like Denmark that have smaller populations, smaller economies, and a smaller country where no one is really ever "distant" from anyone else, also have less (but NOT zero) corruption to deal with. There simply isn't enough wealth or power to be had there, so the largest foreign powers go for bigger targets. The highest levels of influence and power are played out amongst the largest economies of the world.
eeeeyyyy look its working! ppl are seeing the establishment false dichotomy
Politics is too complex to be two sided.
the two party system has confused ppl.
This is true. The only sides worth mentioning, imo, is the distribution of power and its consolidation.
While true, the divide and conquer strategy works MUCH better when there are more than two parties. See: Any country with more than two parties.
I think it just makes the illusion stronger without changing anything in effect. Looking at Europe from the outside it seems like most of the time there are two major coalitions that act as hyper-parties in multi-party parliaments. So it's basically just a two party system made up of special snowflake interest clubs.
It's even worse than that. Take all the in-fighting you see on the left and imagine they actually had a "real" party instead of just being the Communists vs the Socialists vs the Entrenched Cronies.
Take all the hate they direct at the conservatives and imagine power the media would hold to show that "4 out of five parties think the fifth one is acting racist."
Take all the Mitt Romney's and imagine how much capitulating they would do to keep that from being said about them.
Now take all the capitulating the uniparty does behind closed doors, and realize that the most expedient thing for the Mitt Romney's to do is to side with some of the liberal parties against the other liberal parties in order to form a "coalition government." (A literal uniparty with actual paperwork.) And to do so they have to gain points with voters other than straight conservatives by pushing policies that mirror the other parties and pushing back against any policies that their own voter base wants if they are "too controversial."
And that's how Canada has five flavors of Communism.
Every country with more than two parties still has this left-right dichotomy, and all the parties fall on the scale and vote in one of two directions.
I don't know about that. I think corruption is corruption. Any system with "parties", whether 2 or 10, just needs enough palms greased to fuck over the little guy. Countries like Denmark that have smaller populations, smaller economies, and a smaller country where no one is really ever "distant" from anyone else, also have less (but NOT zero) corruption to deal with. There simply isn't enough wealth or power to be had there, so the largest foreign powers go for bigger targets. The highest levels of influence and power are played out amongst the largest economies of the world.