Reply #21: But...

[Spider Jerusalem]

the two-party system DOESN'T work, and is in fact the reason over half of the electorate no longer bothers to go to the polls, because they feel they lack a real and significant choice. The only reason the two-party system has continued here is because the American form of government is significantly different to democracies in the rest of the world, which are mostly parliamentarian, with proportional representation (percentage of votes won in the general election = percentage of seats won in Parliament). The parliamentary form of government leads to more coalition-based politics, with parties working together to acheive common goals rather than being in consistent opposition. In comparison, our American system is a glaring and abject failure in many ways.