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lostlogin on April 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. FCC chairman plans fast-track repeal of net n...

As a total outsider - it's amazing that a place as huge as the US has a two-party system. splitting everything into one camp or the other makes for groupings that don't always work.

alistairSH on April 7, 2017 [–]

A two-party system is the expected result of plurality rule (which the US uses almost exclusively for national elections).[1]

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

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