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It seems to me that almost all countries that are said to be democratic have a system in place where the major parties , usually one or two in number ( or at best three or four ) , alternate between being in power every four years or so ...
In short major party A gets elected and rules for a set number of years , only to be replaced by major party B , with the cycle continuing on and on indefinitely and the thing that really stands out is the fact that one could very much trace this phenomenon back to the late 1940s in the case of most countries ...
In other words it doesn't seem too much of stretch to state that no more than three or four political parties have been running the political affairs of most countries since roughly the end of the Second World War , an arrangement which seems like a form of democratic bid rigging to me as opposed to genuine democracy ...
IMHO a true democracy should be like a marketplace of ideas where all existing parties get proper coverage in the mainstream press and aren't relegated to a few rarely visited pages on Wikipedia as a form of their biggest mainstream exposure ...
So what do you ( potential thread participants ) think of this issue ? Is it all fair and square that ( generally speaking ) only a few parties get to be in government for decades on end ? Or would a proper party switching arrangement be in order ?
I would say it’s a bit more nuanced, if the party is doing a good job and has high favorability it will keep getting voted in, however on the other side of the coin if that party is all that the people know they will keep voting them in because they don’t know they have other options. That’s why a truly democratic society needs to have free, unbiased press, or at least the press/media needs to be honest about their biases. In the case of the US our media is not impartial and will not give any coverage to people who don’t have power, so in this case the US puts a good shared, but if the media was more honest the Republicans and Democrats wouldn’t be winning every year, at the very least not on the local level.
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