More representation of more political parties is what's needed. I'm not a Democrat or a Republican because I can't stand either party. Yet most people have accepted that these parties will always produce the presidents and the leadership of our country. So we've accepted that nothing can change before we even try and change it.
It is not the number of parties, it is the control that the two major parties have over the elections. There are 28 parties that are qualified for national elections, and over 200 at the state level.
The problem is the control the Democratic and Republican parties have. For the presidential debates, they get to choose who can debate. They learned after they let Ross Perot debate not to let anyone else in. Perot went in polling at 9%. After the debate he was close to 25%. I can guarantee if they allowed Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party into the debates of the 2016 presidential race, they Democrats and the Republican numbers would have been smaller. Many people assume most people belong to one of those two parties, the truth is more people are registered as independent than either of those two parties.
I have witnessed many countries who had three, four, five, six and ten political parties. They wind up having to create a "coalition" or partnership of several parties in order to garner the majority of the vote. Too many parties just dilutes the vote.
I've seen our choices diminish to six, four of those parties manifesto's are very similar. Yet just like Hilary and Trump, our lot have also made it about Theresa May (conservatives but really blue labour) and Jeremy Corbyn (fabian socialist), ie personalities rather than political parties. They are both getting more media coverage than any of the other parties which is biased in of itself. Personally, I find it manipulative and a blow to democracy when the parties are being promoted in this manner and our choices cut, it is no longer a democratic process.
PP's initially started as better idea and somewhere along came avaricious opportunists came along and buggered up whole thing.
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