Ideally, how many major political parties should the US have? (economic, elect)
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By a "major" party I mean one that enjoys significant national electoral support (say over 10%) and/or has a significant base of support in a certain city or state.
We are a two party state. We complained about the USSR being a one party state but having two is not fantastic either, especially when the two parties only unite to screw the people.
Socialists/greens, center-left social democrats, Christian economic liberals, Christian economic conservatives, a fiscally conservative/socially liberal "mainstream" center-right party, and ideological libertarians.
Two is best for a number of reasons. Regardless, if we had more than two viable parties, it would go back to two naturally.
It's only the "best" because of the design of our political system. Two party systems always leads to a fair amount of incongruency between the positions of either parties and voters.
You can belong to whatever corrupt/insane party you wish.......all State/Federal elected offices should be non-partisan.
You'd have to outlaw political parties which might possibly be unconstitutional; and with the way campaign finance works, informal political networks based around funding will inevitably develop anyway. If you think the political system is bought and paid for now, the situation might very well become worse without political parties.
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