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Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows (lemmy.ml)

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Duverger's Law says that as long as we have this system of voting, we're going to have two, and only two, major parties. It has changed once in history: when the Republicans replaced the Whigs. So, that's what you're looking at: either change the system of voting or replace one of the two parties.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The major political parties may have only changed names once, but the most common stance in modern political science is that we are in the 6th political party alignment in US history.

Centralization 1796-1824
Jacksonians 1828-1852
Republicans 1856-1892
Progressives 1898-1928
New Dealers 1932-1972
Neoliberalism 1980-Present