No one is clinging to anything. It's not a choice made by the public. It's a fundamental consequence of a single member district, first past the post, winner take all electoral system. This is an established fact, like conservation of momentum - not an opinion. It's like 1 + 1 = 2. Political Science 101. If you want to have more than one political party, you HAVE to change the way our elections function on a basic level. We functionally cannot have a viable 3rd or 4th party in our electoral system. We can have a 3rd party emerge and REPLACE one of the existing 2, but one cannot come about and survive alongside them for more than a couple cycles. It's a functional consequence of how we structure voting here. To get multiple viable parties we'd have to switch to another system, like proportional representation.

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Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:58 am to Cooter Davenport

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o one is clinging to anything. It's not a choice made by the public. It's a fundamental consequence of a single member district, first past the post, winner take all electoral system. This is an established fact, like conservation of momentum - not an opinion. It's like 1 + 1 = 2. Political Science 101. If you want to have more than one political party, you HAVE to change the way our elections function on a basic level. We functionally cannot have a viable 3rd or 4th party in our electoral system. We can have a 3rd party emerge and REPLACE one of the existing 2, but one cannot come about and survive alongside them for more than a couple cycles. It's a functional consequence of how we structure voting here. To get multiple viable parties we'd have to switch to another system, like proportional representation.

All of this. People saying it's corruption or "clinging to power" are misguided or ignorant

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