BEST OF THE GIST: The Case Against The Two-Party System
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The Challenges of a Multi Party Democracy
Most advanced democracies have some form of proportional multi party democracy. The danger of the two parti system is that it reafies and amplifies those divisions in a way that becomes zero sum and binary, he says. But do you think our parties make us fractious? Or how fractious we are has given rise to these very, far sordid parties? Mr Obama: "I worry that if there were this system with all these different parties, and the most that anyone could wield"
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