• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Maybe the system is set up to limit the power of protest voting?

    Not everything is some conspiracy to keep you down. The people who wrote the constitution just weren’t perfect and had to make political compromises, which resulted in an imperfect system.

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      Also, the game theory that gives us insight into voting systems, telling us the current system leads to a 2 party system, did not exist when the US constitution was written.