What If America Had A Multi-Party System?

The Two-Party System of the United States has often been the subject of great criticism by both American citizens, and those abroad. These critiques tend to breakdown along four main points.

One is the issue of polarization; the claim that if only two parties exist, they’re likely to adopt policies existing on opposite sides of the spectrum, making compromise far more difficult, and national progress toward either party’s goal impossible, as each changing administration would then work to undo the achievements of the prior.

Second, in contrast to the first critique, is that a two party system creates an Illusion of Choice. That the two parties, at the end of the day, are basically the same. That meaning, in the modern sense, that both Republican and Democrat politicians are just self-interested globalists in the pockets of major corporations and elite groups. Mind you, this is something held by both people on the right and left, both of whom have historically attempted to remedy this by supporting third parties, or non-establishment candidates like Donald Trump, in the case of conservatives, or Bernie Sanders, in the case of the left-wing, and often we find active roadblocks put in place by the establishment to prevent the non-establishment faction from competing on equal footing.

Thirdly, there is the matter that with only two parties, both sides are attempting to maximize their total voter appeal, and as such, widen their platform to be more inclusive of niche demographics or interest…