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If you're not satisfied with the two major parties, why can't you vote for a third party?
Sweden has lots of parties. New ones pop up now and then.
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Sweden uses proportional voting instead of majority voting and as a result it has more parties.
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It “makes the basic assumption that the participating parties are on some level willing to cooperate with each other and work towards common solutions, at least to the extent that they recognize they are members of some common community.” If the participating parties meet up to that, the software should “make discussion within and among large communities viable and effective.”
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That's not an basic assumption that's true for states.
That's similar to dreaming of a 100% voting participation. You will always have people who don't want to integrate into the current political consensus and work inside it.
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“In the Wiki of TON, you can deliver your own contribution to the first eight main themes that TON is focussing on.” (TON) In this way Dutch citizens can contribute to the party’s political programme.
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The actual words of a parties program aren't the thing that matters.
You need commitment of the powerful people in the party and find some process to make decisions.
In Wikipedia decisions are made through authority. Jimmy is the benevolent dictator for life and makes them if other people don't find a consensus.
Then you have admins who also have the power to make decisions at lower level but that also isn't the thing that's typically understand under a democratic process.