The reason for #1 is baked into how our constitution was written, back in 1789 – the fact that the Congress and Senate need a 2/3 majority in order to override a presidential veto of bills (or to remove the president from office). That’s hard enough to accomplish with two parties, and would be impossible with with three or four.

It is true that, occasionally, a new political party will rise to prominence, and elect a bunch of senators, representatives, and even a president now and then. But when that happens, it shakes out that one of the old parties just fades into non-existence. So there’s always been own two parties in power at any one time in history.

Voting for a third party as a “protest vote” during a national election only splits the progressive voting bloc,* and the Conservative / Right-Wing party stays in power. Period.

It’s different at the local level, ‘cause town boards, and school boards, etc., get decisions passed by simple majority, and people running for those positions don’t have to worry about appealing to broad swaths of the American People, or worry about how the national media like CNN or FOX News will spin their campaign talking points.



If you want to advance the Green Party agenda, and/or work to destigmatise the Social Democrats, then I suggest you run as and/or support candidates from those parties in your own home town. And if you do, I will signal boost the hell out of your efforts… I think we’re about due for one of our two national parties to fade into non-existence.



But when it comes to the office of the President, our choice is between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. And this year, that means Biden or Forty-Five. Period.

This year, the Democratic Party issued a new platform of shared ideals that the party aspires to represent.



Historically, both our national parties have drafted political platforms every four years that Presidential, Congressional, and Senatorial candidates have agreed represent their values. This year, however, the Republicans have decided to just recycle their party platform from 2016 (and you can look around you and see where that plan has got us so far).



*(And it’s nearly always the progressive vote that gets split, ‘cause it’s the progressive people who are constantly looking for new solutions to social problems; conservatives don’t even see the social problems, or don’t think they’re important enough to change)

