• NONE@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Believe me, even with more parties, politicians would manage to monopolize the attention of voters by assimilating smaller parties into “coalitions”. Take for example my country Venezuela, there are supposed to be about 30 parties, but half of them were consumed by the PSUV (the ruling party) and the other half are barely creating an opposition coalition, bringing us closer to bipartisanship.

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      3 months ago

      30 is way too many. Ideally, you want about 4-5 parties in order to maintain a healthy democracy without getting bogged down.

      Either way, the two party duopoly of the US ain’t it.