Comment by 082349872349872

We have more parties than the US and are less polarised[1]. I recommend more parties, but don't see any incremental way the US could get them.

[1] but then again, we had a mid-nineteenth century religiously-motivated civil war and it only killed a few hundred people. So maybe we support a plurality of parties because we're less polarisable, and not the other way around?

(rather than having a fabric of society, prone to ripping, having a dense irregular felt of society, of tocquevillean overlapping voluntary associations, FTW?)