America: The Rebellious Teenager
Our Founding Fathers warned us about two-party systems, but we didn’t listen. Thinking we knew better, we began functioning under one anyway. The American two-party system has never been beneficial for our country. This year especially, the flaws of operating under a two-party system are displayed clearly in the 2016 Presidential Election. With a Republican nominee that has less experience than any candidate we have ever seen, and a Democratic nominee that can’t seem to keep her stories straight, a large percentage of the American people are at a loss for who to vote for. The truth is, a two-party system has always been an issue with our country: it doesn’t give voters enough variety in who they want to elect, it limits the power between only two perspectives, and it ignores the millions of Americans that don’t affiliate themselves with either party. While the two-party system is great for people who are extremely right wing or left wing, studies have proven that most of America lies somewhere in between. Third …show more content…
One of the biggest institutions is the Electoral College. This system makes is nearly impossible for a third party to grow in our political system. Each state gives its votes by a winner-takes-all rule. If one candidate wins 50.1% of the population, it received 100% of the votes for that state. This system makes people afraid to vote for a third party candidate, because they don’t seem to have any chance to win a whole state. Another institution that is at fault is the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The CPD is not allowing Gary Johnson and Jill Stein to debate, effectively robbing them of publicity and the right to express their platform to voters. The CPD should be an unbiased organization, but instead favors the two major parties not allowing any third parties to represent themselves against the leading two
Our Founding Fathers warned us about two-party systems, but we didn’t listen. Thinking we knew better, we began functioning under one anyway. The American two-party system has never been beneficial for our country. This year especially, the flaws of operating under a two-party system are displayed clearly in the 2016 Presidential Election. With a Republican nominee that has less experience than any candidate we have ever seen, and a Democratic nominee that can’t seem to keep her stories straight, a large percentage of the American people are at a loss for who to vote for. The truth is, a two-party system has always been an issue with our country: it doesn’t give voters enough variety in who they want to elect, it limits the power between only two perspectives, and it ignores the millions of Americans that don’t affiliate themselves with either party. While the two-party system is great for people who are extremely right wing or left wing, studies have proven that most of America lies somewhere in between. Third …show more content…
One of the biggest institutions is the Electoral College. This system makes is nearly impossible for a third party to grow in our political system. Each state gives its votes by a winner-takes-all rule. If one candidate wins 50.1% of the population, it received 100% of the votes for that state. This system makes people afraid to vote for a third party candidate, because they don’t seem to have any chance to win a whole state. Another institution that is at fault is the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The CPD is not allowing Gary Johnson and Jill Stein to debate, effectively robbing them of publicity and the right to express their platform to voters. The CPD should be an unbiased organization, but instead favors the two major parties not allowing any third parties to represent themselves against the leading two