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>Especially in the current political climate I hope I do not have to explain how undesirable and dangerous that is.

this is not the way to make a point that the other party will find persuasive.

What do you mean by 'the other party'? Many places have more than two parties.

Yeah I'm glad I don't live in a two party state. The zero sum game politics that results in rips the country apart. You see this in the US and also in the UK (Brexit etc)

It's not better in countries with multiple parties where nearly everyone (every relevant party) wants authoritarianism in the name of "fighting hate speech".

It is all the same, under different names. Plus even in countries with multiple parties, it is usually only two parties that have a chance, but again, they usually (or always) have a similar (or the same) goals.

Not really, in Holland we usually have a coalition of at least 3 parties in government. No one party is ever big enough to have a majority. And yes they are quite different. This makes coalitions difficult to form and very unstable but I still far prefer it over a two-party system.

Here in Hungary we have many parties, but only two parties have the chance to win.

I assumed that meant "the other side of the conversation", e.g. "all parties involved".

I assumed they meant Republicans/Trump, but it's a bit confusing because those parties aren't very popular in the EU:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/confidence-in-...

whatever your political alignment, saying the situation in the US is problematic might sell pretty well in the EU.

Don't be obtuse to make a point, the OP specifically stated they were in the United States.

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(I wish non-Americans wouldn't spend all their time tripping over themselves to try to insult Americans. If you didn't feel so insecure about yourselves and resentful of the success of others, you wouldn't feel such a need to justify your existence.)

In this case, however, it's your poor English to blame. In English when you talk to another person, that other person can be called the other party. It's not an attitude, it's a very neutral term.

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