• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    6 months ago

    Awww shucks, most of the progressives got rat fucked by the party!

    Guess we get more “centrism” in a desperate appeal to people who actually don’t mind fascism that much, now that they think about it

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      6 months ago

      That’s just the nature of democracy mate.

      With two parties they will always align themselves just to the left and right of whatever “center” happens to be.

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        6 months ago

        you’re not talking about democracy, you’re talking about the specific system used in the US

        most countries in europe do not have a 2-party system, here in sweden we have one party (the social democrats) with 33% of votes and then like 7 other parties with decreasing numbers of votes, that have to come together with a majority of the votes to form a government.

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          6 months ago

          Yes, but all 8 parties will strategically position themselves around the overton window to gather as many votes as possible.

          If you have 2 parties as in the US then obviously it’s one party either side.

          I’m Australian BTW. 3 major parties, many small ones.