[warlox]

Of course, the math says that with the current voting system, any third party that emerges as a major force will always consume one of the existing major parties, leading the nation back to a two party system. I wonder why people always ignore this inconvenient theorem.

[ericd]

Most people don't understand that intuitively, I think.

[chestervonwinch]

To which theorem do you refer ...?

[warlox]

It's called Duverger's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law