Would the US be better off with a multi-party system?

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The only difference, practically, is that we form our governing coalitions before the election rather than after. But the fact of the presidency presents a strong inducement for there to be only two parties, because the population has to elect the president nationwide (sort of).

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You cannot just decree a multi-party system. To get there you would have to change the government and electoral systems first. Under the current constitution, anything other than a two-party system can only exist as a short-term transition state. Those two parties do not have to be called "Democratic" and "Republican", but, whatever they are called, there can only be two.

Right. Just because the system militates toward that, not because anybody designed it that way or anything.