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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

What if the yanks had more than 2 parties

Political parties represent the interests of the wealthy - for a third party in the US to be successful, it would have to cater to a moneyed interest that the current "good cop/bad cop" routine doesn't cater to. As far as I can tell, the capitalist class in the US is perfectly happy with this duopoly - so no third party.

I'm afraid that a third party is no "silver bullet" - here in South Africa, we have a whole bunch of parties, and guess what... they still only end up serving the interests of the wealthy. Our largest two factions of political racketeers are neoliberals that will happily bend over backwards to sell South Africans out to foreign corporations, while the third-largest is literally just a front for a bunch of overmoneyed Zulu royalty - no surprises that our voter apathy is even worse than in the US.