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user-inactivated · 4358 days ago · link · · parent · post: Representative Ted Yoho: "I think, personally, [breaching the debt ceiling] would bring stability to the world markets”
First-past-the-post ensures being a third party rarely works in the States. When it does, they've ended up replacing one of the major parties; the Republicans replacing the Whigs, the Democrats replacing the Democratic-Republicans. That doesn't seem likely to happen in the foreseeable future, though I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans end up looking an awful lot like the Libertarians eventually.