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I mean imagine if you could impeach the president without a majority. That would be the death of democracy. Just to put things in perspective: The GOP democratically won both houses of Congress and the presidency and because of DNC incompetence also has the Supreme Court. Them being able to do whatever the fuck they want is, in a way, democracy working as intended. It'd be weirder (and much more undemocratic) if there was a way to remove a sitting president without the Supreme Court or Congress.
This only proves that two-party system is just an authoritarianism with rotation. There's always a ruling majority and the winner takes all.
Things would be different with at least the third party. 2 out of 3 parties would agree that the party no.3 is a fucking malice and rule him out.
Two party system wasn't in the constitution, its an emergent property of FPTP voting method. FPTP + Electoral College means we get this fucking bullshit.
TLDR: There's no "two-party system", that's just the result of FPTP. Nuke the FPTP system, replace with Ranked-Choice ballot (and also delete the Electoral College, that shit is outdated AF).
Very much on the electoral college, it made some measure of sense when the electors would have to ride a horse from California to DC maybe but that died a century or so ago.
From a smart ass perspective though, I just want to point that the TLDR portion actually has more words than the block above it. 🙃
Lol I started to use "TLDR" as a replacement for "In Conclusion", because the concluding paragraph is supposed to summarize what you wrote anyways, so those terms are interchangeable.
Third party would most likely make things better but there's no guarantee it would help in the situation you've set up. If two of the parties are fine with an actual Nazi in the White House and between them they control over half the votes then we're still in the same situation.
Turns out there is, in fact. It just doesn't involve governmental process at all. You're quite correct that it's undemocratic. (See: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy)