Due to Romania's past as a socialist country...

They're pretty much the same party for the most part

just slight differences

I mean, yeah

That's for sure

A lot of social democrats came to the other party for some reason

Social democracy is a nice way of saying "we'll keep socialism, but we pretend it's capitalism."

I think the two party system we have in the US is cancer/divisive. People have to jump on board with a lot of nonsense positions on issues based on the one that matters most to them.

It’s a nuance vs coalition between parties to get stuff done. But I think it’s part of why we are so polarized. I’m economic conservative and socially moderate

I mean, Romania's polarized as well, but we have many, many more parties.

Some parties are just irrelevant, while others are too overrated.

The only alternative would be a one party system, I guess you could still vote on the elected representatives

If overturning roe v wade meant never winning another election, I would suggest not to do it. Lest you give power to the left on a more permanent basis. Because the majority of people aren’t in favor of making abortions illegal. But this is the issue we allow to drive party affiliation

Nah, the only alternative would be a no-party system. All of them shall be independent.

Instead of parties, there'd be some kind of groups, you know?

But the focus shall be on the person elected, not on the party.

Yeah I think if the libertarians and one or two more had some money and some air time people could be more precise in showing what’s important to them even if some of these wind up mostly voting together strategically.

The issue is the people supporting the president are usually more important than president themselves (and that’s usually the party). Not including Trump

Yeah, the person could be awesome, but he'd be supported by corrupts like Soros

The way things are so polarized into black and white needs to get fixed. So it feels like one country and multiple opinions are tolerated

A multi-party system is really it. 3rd parties should be allowed to be standalone parties that have real chances

Yeah social media is driving the tribalism much worse

The swamp does not want any third parties disrupting their power duopoly

3rd parties are automatically having lesser chances than the big parties. What's up with the US and duopolies?

Great minds 😄

Democrats and Republicans, Android and iOS, Windows and macOS, PC and Mac etc.

good observation. Probably because monopolies are illegal otherwise that’s what they’d go for lol

Seriously, people seem to enjoy only having two choices for no reason at all

Maybe it's the paradox about multiple choices

9 different brands would be too much for most people

I think 3-4 is the sweet spot

far left centre left

far right centre right

Correct.

But here we have Comcast and AT&T owning the narrative. The news and the way you access it (cable, dish, streaming)

Wait... AT&T even owns the NEWS?!

People are waking up to the fake news though

Sprinkle in Disney and the NYT and you mostly have it covered. I just don’t get how all these “news” outlets are aligned to push the same narrative. Or why

AT&T owns CNN

Yeah, RCS&RDS or Digi, which are a cable company in Romania, also have a news channel.

They're backed by the deep state