[ronnieboy493]

To further add to that, many states do closed primaries. If a voter isn't registered with one of the two ordained parties, they realistically cannot participate in primaries at all.

If there would six parties to choose from, for example, I think it would be hard to argue that closed primaries are harmful. But since we have a duopoly, they exclude a significant portion of the voting population from participating until late in the process.

[dragonwriter]

> If there would six parties to choose from, for example, I think it would be hard to argue that closed primaries are harmful.

Six is a not-uncommon number of parties qualified for ballot access in a US state, though some have fewer and some have more.

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_political_parties_in_the_Uni...

[bdangubic]

there is roughly 0.000087% of US population who can name more than two