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After watching this video, you will thoroughly and subtly understand why America only has two parties. Spoiler: It’s not because of the DNC or Joe Biden or some sort of Jewish conspiracy. It’s just old-fashioned political science. If anyone should be blamed, it’s the Founding Fathers. But keep in mind, they made the first-ever real constitution. So it was supposed to be bad. Imagine the first light bulb. But unlike light bulbs, constitutions are hard to change. That gave America a first mover disadvantage because it’s stuck with 200-yo document. Btw some people want to switch to a 2000-yo one, imagine that.
The first factor for the lack of small parties, the notorious 12th Amendment of 1804. No other country had such a strange way to elect the president.
I’m not just talking about the Electoral College, which was bad enough, but more specifically about what would happen if the Electoral College votes got split three-way.
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