#57) Political Parties Showcase
Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Today we will return to the Political Track, and I'd like to explore the different political parties that exist in the United States. First off, why do we have political parties in the first place? This is a question that will come up several times in this and other videos in the near future. I think that in a democratic society, such parties might be inevitable. People who seem to share the same political views will tend to find each other and join forces, ... and a party is born. In autocratic societies, there tend to be zero or one state party in which everyone must be a member. In the United States, we currently have two major parties and scores of other smaller parties. Many experts think that our system of voting, as dictated by the US Constitution, almost guarantees a two-party system. Because of a theory called Duverger's Law, the math strongly pushes us to two parties. And I'm sure you've...