Third party expected to get high returns in 2020 US presidential election
Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Chicago
While abstention remains the most common form of ballot box resistance in the United States, more and more Americans are turning toward third parties.
Many insist that the US is truly a one-party system, but what’s certain is that two-party systems are routinely condemned for failing to include all voices and for not providing an equal chance to compete.
The lack of proportional representation in a “winner-take-all” system which renders worthless a vote for the losing candidate; an 18th century Electoral College “overseer” which has overturned the popular vote twice in the past five elections; the necessity of big money to spend on election campaigns; enormous obstacles just to get a new party on the ballot… For over 150 years Republicans and Democrats have worked together to create a system which makes the rise of a third party seemingly impossible.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation has become the most popular leftist party in the United States, with a platform poised for popularity, especially among America’s youth class, but the two-party system ensures that they and other third parties won’t get equal democratic opportunities, yet again.
A broad, grassroots, new political party faces more challenges in the US than perhaps any other democracy, but many predict record third-party returns this November despite their lack of entrenched privileges.
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