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[–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

You're ignorant of history. Yes, we'll have two parties due to our electoral system, but precisely which two parties can easily change. It's happened before. In fact, that's how the Republican party came to be. The Abolitionists spent nearly a century doing exactly what you advocate - voting for the lesser evil. Slavery only became more entrenched. It was only when they were willing to abandon the existing parties entirely and support a new third party - the Republicans, that Abolition actually happened.

We would have never had a President Lincoln if our ancestors had followed your advice.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    I didn't realize I was advocating for voting for one of two parties. It almost seemed I was pointing out that we're stuck in that trap without a change of voting system. Let me reread my post... yeah, that was the point.

    As for the rest, you're sort of right but very, very simplified what was going on. And of course with a different system from the start history would be different... maybe even avoided a Civil War and/or repairing its causes and damage. Oh well...

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