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Doesn’t matter. If you use plurality voting, there is crushing, inescapable pressure for parties to merge. Any successful third party will rapidly collapse into two parties again. It’s a trap built into the system: even if you win, you lose.
And it’s not hypothetical; it’s already happened in US history. Arguably twice.
Paul Cantrell /
npub1wd…eu3nk
2023-11-17 20:40:36
in reply to nevent1q…087u
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npub1wd5vff3dsq0nf3yde85fn4g3qeaagwuacxw222j35f6q6r6lvttsyeu3nkPublished at
2023-11-17 20:40:36Event JSON
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