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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Unless you have a strategy to overthrow the electoral college, it is a two party system. But even the countries that don't have the electoral college are generally two party systems. Canada hasn't given the NDP a chance to govern, never has and probably never will.
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This is categorically wrong if you look at most European countries besides the UK. It's FPtP that creates two-party systems.
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That the progressive wing is basically capped at 30% is just reality, I don't know how they get over the hump, but until they do the fear of avoiding the worst is just how it is. But Bernie didn't lose because of the DNC, he lost because 70% of the party isn't progressive. We always hear that "the next generation" will be the one to swing more left, but then people grow up, they just become more moderate and it remains the same cycle.
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This ignores that Obama was considered the "progressive candidate" in 2008, but okay.
Registered Democrats have been on the decline for years. The reason the party isn't swinging more progressive is because progressives are leaving the party. Many progressives have realized that the party is a waste of time and their best chances of affecting change are through other avenues.