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[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. If the extremists taking hold of both parties doesn't hurt it, or the "people view political parties as a sports team and treat them as such" doesn't hurt it, the fact that the US politics are a two-party system, there's no hope of a third party emerging, and indeed if you try voting for a third party, it's throwing your vote away at best, voting for the opponent at worst is what really kills it.

If third parties could sprout up, then maybe it'd save things- the Republicans could split into the centrists, the fiscal republicans, the Christian Republicans, the Trump wackjobs, and the outright Nazis, the Democrats could split into the centrists, the social Democrats, the idpol-obsessed Democrats from each group, the avowed communists, etc.