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Of course, the USA is not a parliamentary democracy. It was a revolutionary democratic republic in the 18th century, but parliamentary democracy is a newer system that has some advantages over the US model.

Voting for third parties generally doesn't work well in the US, though the major parties have coopted third-party programs in the past. And the major parties have changed identity and stolen each other's acts from time to time.

Party politics in the US have often been sordid, shortsighted, and dismissive of the Constitution, but they're hard to avoid. Washington warned against party politics altogether, but still ended up a de facto founder of the Federalists.

Once more, I know, contentious though they may be from time to time, that these are my people...

Typeminer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:10 pmParty politics in the US have often been sordid, shortsighted, and dismissive of the Constitution

From talking to people in various other countries on occasion, you could say that about any of them (except that some of them don't really have a constitution to be dismissive of).

The one-party states simply keep the cutthroat politicking within the single party (and are more likely to take the "cutthroat" part literally).