Is it time for a multiparty system in the US?

As long as we make option 4's color scheme pink.

I wish

it will still be 1-3 vs 4

I'd settle for two real parties at this point.

A viable party outside the current two will never happen in our lifetimes. Maybe ever.

The two parties have ensured that.

It would require, at the very least, very rich donors, to even approach the kind of budget to make a legitimate campaign. Very rich people are already emboldened to one of the other two parties.

And the Ds and Rs will collude to take down any third party candidate.

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here's a hint jethro, these hypothetical parties are still going to have to form a coalition and elect a speaker of the house.

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Yes but it would still keep both other parties in check and force them to maintain more moderate positions on just about everything if a viable 3rd party could get enough candidates elected to prevent any one party from holding a majority on their own.

It would revert to a two party system after a couple of elections were decided by the House.

First-past-the-post systems and single member districts all but ensure a two party reality in this country (or anywhere else, though some foreign countries go the coalition route). To the extent a third party moves in, it either merges with or kills off one of the existing parties.

No. It will only further muddy the waters of corruption.


I have stated for years that Libertarians need to get their people into the Republican party if they want to change the system, because trying to be that third party candidate will never gain any ground and will further empower the left to be in control.


We are seeing a revolution in the Republican party now due to this very thing happening. Rand, Cruz, Trump, etc are changing the party away from the establishment cucks that have run it, and they are bringing in new voters with a better overall platform. It is a long game fight though, which is something that we will win, since we know the Old R's are reactionary pussies who do not know how to play the long game.

Hate on AOC and "The Squad" all you want (I do), but they are doing the same thing with the D's. THIS is how you change the system and break the establishment up.

Sure the IDEA of a multiparty system is great, but the reality is that it doesn't fix any of this. Plus the only way it actually happens is for voters to fully abandon the current two parties and start voting these other ones more. It also requires actually decent candidates from these other parties, not some schmucks who are just trying to get some exposure to add to their coin purses.

I feel it’s time for a no-party system in the US. A person runs off their singular ideas. The idea of voting based on part is insane if you really think about it.

The lesson from Ross Perot was if you want to elect a Democrat with little or no opposition, fight for more than 2 parties. All it will do is officially make it impossible for a Republican/conservative to ever win again.