The Merits of the Two Party System

The two party system is a manipulative lie.

It offers the ILLUSION of choice where there is NO REAL CHOICE.

The video's creator is assuming that even with the rise of more parties, we would keep the same exact voting system. Instant-runoff voting, which is coming into use in cities across the US, would allow for multi-candidate elections and solve the problem of candidates winning without a majority. Proportional representation in legislatures would give parties seats based on their percentage of the vote, so all voters would be represented fairly.

In the 2000 presidential election, 51.3% of voting-age Americans voted, and 47.9% of those voted for Bush. So the eventual president had the support of 24.6% of the populace.
We have checks and balances (such as the judicial branch) to prevent government from exceeding its limits, and bureaucracies to make sure things don't happen too fast. The job of elected officials should be to represent the voters, whether or not that entails being 'moderate' as this video has in mind.

just a point... in canada we largely have a 4 party system... kinda... conservative party, liberal party, new democrat party, and the block(they're french. lol). conservatives and liberals are almost always in power with a minority government. the benefit of having more parties is you get minority governments... recently our prime minister was apparently fuckin everything up so we had a vote of no confidence... i think he stayed in i'm not sure, i was actually in the states..
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FakeSagan, you do realize that the 3rd parties would be just as corrupt as the two major parties as soon as they gained any power right? They aren't as corrupt now because they have now power and thus no one desires to corrupt them because they can't giver anyone access to anything they might want. But as soon as they gained any power, from your vote presumably, they would be immediately corrupted by the same money and interests that corrupt the Republicans and the Democrats.