Does the two-Party system help or hurt our country ??

[stevenleser]

40. Winning a national campaign would still entail getting support from the same voters. Therefore...

if you believe that supporting certain positions will lose you the ability to get 50% +1 vote in the next national election, you still will not support those positions. And your concern as President and head of your party isnt just your office, it is whether if you tilt too far to one side whether you doom congressional candidates on your general philosophical side from winning their seats too. That is all your responsibility.

I have some concerns in a multiparty system that far right candidates would win more seats than far left candidates. Certainly if you look at parts of the south and midwest and mountain states, they seem much redder than parts of the northeast and california seem blue. Consider a four party system where the partys are Fascist Party, Republican party, Democratic Party and Socialists/Greens. I think the Fascists would win more than the Socialist/Greens. Its conjecture, but again, I think large swaths of the red states have districts that are THAT red.