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> There's no law against other parties, it just turns out that with direct voting in a large country, over enough time, we arrive here with two parties.

Wrong.

It turns out that with First-Past-The-Post, we arrive with two parties.

In many other countries, over centuries, even more parties develop, and fail again.

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At best a handful of parties, and it only works in small elections. You get to bigger and bigger elections the system always reduces the choice, which means that the bigger the system is, the less effective democracy becomes.

Of course democracy was never meant to be the most efficient or effective system of government. It's simply the most compromising one.

Tell that to india, which has 6 National parties[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_I...

Brazil has 25 national parties in parliament. Though nowadays their system might not sound like something to emulate :|

You say "at best a handful" like there isn't a meaningful difference between "2" and "3 or 4". The US is deeply unusual in their persistent two party system. Germany probably has nearly as many voters (given higher registration and turnout rates) as the US, and certainly doesn't operate as a two party system

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