• CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Unfortunately our democracy is flawed, and our election system punishes similar candidates who run against each other in the general election.

    Because of this, our political parties are more like coalitions, made up various groups with overlapping goals, who choose one candidate through a primary, so that they don’t cannibalize each other in the general election.

    This means that those who run third party anyway are either looking for publicity, cynically playing the spoiler, or fools.