• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We were the first modern democracy. No one did the math on how FPTP works until over 50 years after the country was founded, and by then it had already produced our two party system. IIRC, they did the math to determine if the US was a fluke, or if that was the natural conclusion of FPTP voting.