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If we are going to think bigger I suggest more than 2 viable parties.

You’re going to have to eliminate first past the post for that to work. Both parties are essentially coallitions. Christian nationalists and big business, and their apologists on one side, and everyone else on the other.

This obviously isn't true unless you think half the population is "evil". It doesn't help anyone's cause when you try and position it as "us vs. Them, and they're wrong"

They may or may not be wrong, or evil, but they are almost certainly not going to take your opinion into account if they win.

An election is fundamentally binary: it has one winner and everyone else is equally a loser. There are other structures that don't fall prey to that, such as multi member districts or party lists. As long as the election has a unique outcome, everyone else is equivalently irrelevant.

hah, I see Unions/forced votes and bought naïve votes (anyone falling for "free" healthcare, student loan cancellation, $10k for a house, etc) on one side, everyone else on the other. That has changed in the last few years for sure.

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