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[–]Finnegan7921 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem with multi-party coalition governments is that you can end up with situations like the current one in Italy where the governing coalition of multiple parties fell out with each other and the whole thing broke up, now they have to form a new government on the fly. I think we could live with a medium sized third party, but even that would just end in them being the ultimate power brokers b/c either side would court those members in the Congress. The real problem isn't the two party system, it is the fact that they are all bought and paid for b/c they can stay there forever and rake in massive amounts of money selling their vote. Politics was never supposed to be a lifelong career, now it is a path to becoming a multimillionaire.

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You don't need to change to a proportional system that encourages coalition governments to get good representation in a single-winner system.

The real problem isn't the two party system

It's not a question of it being a "two party system", it's a question of it being demonstrably a bad decision making system for selecting leaders that happens to lead to two party dominance. Don't listen to a random commenter; take it from a PhD mathematician with a specialty in election science who has real world data to back it up:

https://rangevoting.org/Plurality.html