User blog comment:Darkest Shadow/PianoPoll~!/@comment-1981371-20161106072612/@comment-25638472-20161106084233

We have more than two parties to vote for, though. Gary Johnson and Jilly Stein for the Libertarian and Green parties, respectively, are both on the ballot. Just, noone in America cares. Why? Because the two parties in power have been very good at making large, set in stone alliances. Other countries have more colorful multi-party ballots, but that system also isn't perfect: in the end, the losing parties have to scrounge up support where they can, and generally end up having to crony up to a bigger party anyways.

It makes a bit of sense if you think of it as an expidited process, where all of the little parties have already grouped together into a big party for a better chance at getting a bigger slice of the pie!

Being a politics major sucks, lol.