• Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    America would exist without either party. People forget that the meaning of each party has shifted throughout the years. Parties have even gone extinct when a viable third party alternative was available. But they aren’t central to American life. More than one third of our population doesn’t even affiliate with a party.

    The CCP has done everything in their power to make themselves central to Chinese life. But they are a party and not China itself, even they are replaceable. Taiwan is a good example of how democracy could work within a modern Chinese society. Which is why the CCP wants to bring them to heel.

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      9 months ago

      The last third party to receive more than 20% of the vote was Teddy Roosevelt.

      In 1912.

      Tell me more about this “viable third party alternative.”