SamuelRSmith on 20 June 2012
| Marks said: I never really knew much about politics before like a year or two ago. I always voted Conservative (Right-wing party in Canada) just because of family influence...but now I'm more of a Libertarian. It's a shame though because there are only 3 legitimate choices of party in Canada (which I guess is better than just 2 like in America) but ours are basically all left wing...the Conservative party in Canada is more left wing than the American Democrats. We have no Libertarian or really far right wing option. |
Why is 3 better than 2 better than 1? The number of parties is inconsequential, it's about what those parties represent. As you say, in Canada you still have very little choice, despite effectively being a 3-party state. The same is true throughout the whole of Europe, there is effectively zero difference between the parties.
There is a lot of truth to this in the USA, too. Particularly at the Federal level. It's only small groups of the parties that hold major differencies (and they seem to be more separate at local/state levels... Michigan is a very different state to live in, compared to New Hampshire).
