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> I'm amazed that there's often 10s of kinds of peanut butter in an American super market, but only two political parties

Like I can't taste the difference between the 10s of kinds of peanut butter, I'm not sure the half dozen different political parties in my home country (France) offer a real variety of choice.

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I see it less about the expressive ability of having multiple parties to express your political positions, and more about the fact that competition is good. In other countries, when a major party is embroiled in scandal, they usually lose power for a few years and sometimes another party emerges from their ashes. You don't have that happen in the US, and it's overdue.

Sure, fake choice is still a choice.

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