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No most of them started out as monarchies so they cant have parliaments. That would be a change in how the government functions, and that’s impossible.

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No most of them started out as monarchies so they cant have parliaments. That would be a change in how the government functions, and that’s impossible

Well that’s not true at all. Parliamentary monarchies are absolutely a thing, the UK being one.

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Awesome, that means how our government functions can be changed to accommodate several parties.

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Nobody is saying the US system can’t be changed to accommodate third-parties.

What they are saying is that third-parties aren’t viable the way things are now.

You can’t elect third parties to change the system; the system has to be changed to elect third parties. Until then, voting for a third party is wasting a vote and advocating for others to do so is telling them to vote against the major party that is both more likely to win and also the one that more closely represents their values.

The exception, of course, is if one of the major parties suffers an implosion like the Whigs did in the mid-1800s. But the Dems are more unified than ever and the Republicans are brainwashed by right-wing media, so I don’t see that happening any time soon.

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Constitutional Monarchies are still a parliamentary form of government. See England as a prime example.

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Theyre just figurehead monarchies, they have a prime minister chosen by parliament. The point i was making was that they are not now how they were then. They and many other countries changed into a form of government that offers several party choices for voters. But any effort to that effect here is met with immediate dismissal as being impossible.

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