What? Did you not get the point of this?
The Republicans could get the same amount of votes as the Democrats and the Republicans will win EVERY TIME. How is this the fault of the Democrats? For not having smaller states? What?
It is still accidental and could have been the other way round. Also, why has that not been changed already. Isn´t new, right?
Well, that the Republicans have an advantage wasn't done for the reason of making it easier for the Republicans, however it's what it is, and it's not fair.
Actually it's not fair because FPTP is negative voting. In Germany they have FPTP and PR, PR is positive. 10% of people vote smaller parties in PR and the larger parties in FPTP.
FPTP leads to the large parties doing well, it leads to less choice, as in the US had two parties and that's it, whereas in countries with PR, 5 seems to be the lowest amount of parties I've seen in an election that got into govt. In a country of 300 million people and more, it hardly seems that two ideas should hog the whole of politics.
It doesn´t matter. For example, look at the Israeli party landscape. There are so many parties but all have the attribute "Zionist". Leftism for example is called "Labor Zionism". I mean, it doesn´t matter how many parties you have, they are all in the bag and their election would change nothing. In fact, they are even essential as they are the clowns who enable the big parties to govern. For example, all those guys tell you here the Green Party will legalize pot. But they were in the government for 7 years and the topic did not even come up. Instead, they made war and raised an "eco-tax" which the companies passed along to the ordinary citizen. And they demanded an artificial fuel price of about 3 Dollars that they failed to push through.
And this is based on what exactly? Based on you looking at Israel?
Come off it, there are plenty of different countries.
In Germany, for example, yes, the main two parties govern. However they ALWAYS govern in a coalition. What does this mean? It means the main party (The CDU now) has to work with agreement.
What happens in the US? Agreement? No, they simply try and prevent the other side from being able to do anything. It's a shambles in the US, partisan politics has taken over. In Germany it hasn't.
You bring up the Green Party, which was in coalition govt with the SPD in Germany, and pushed through Green Party politics. So the people know that voting for a secondary party won't get them the govt, but will impact the policies that get through.
In the US either the Reps or Dems win and that's it. They'll push their agenda and anything beyond this agenda simply gets ignored. In other countries this isn't so.
But the main thing is that people can CHOOSE their govt, unlike in the US where people are trying to choose who ISN'T their govt.