r/dankmemes • u/Virasman • Jun 28 '24

meta Seriously, don't you have other candidates?

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u/PraiseTheWLAN Jun 28 '24

Just vote someone else lol, I can't believe you only have 2 choices, that would be so dumb

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u/Valkyrie278 Jun 28 '24

We truly wish it were that easy, but our two party system isn't something that can be fixed simply by voting in a third-party president. Congress is still entirely these two parties, so anything a third party president would try to do would likely be blocked by one or both

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u/Ecleptomania Jun 29 '24

As a Swede I am always amazed that AMERICA "the land of the free" believes themselves to be a Democracy when they are in fact just an oligarchy with two options to chose from. Thank the Europeans for real democracy

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u/La3Rat Jun 28 '24

We may have other parties but those candidates are not on every states ballot. A third party candidate could do extremely well as a percentage of the ballots they are on and do miserably in the total. It is not a system that favors a third party.