You’re only able to choose two options, how is that democracy? I thought democracy was about being able to choose anyone you think is suitable to be a leader, not one of two pre-selected people. At that point, it’s not much different to a one-party system, just with two people rather than only one person.
That’s not really true. The electoral college system basically makes it near impossible for a third party to get any representation.
This is in contrast to parliamentary systems that still tend towards two parties but actually do regularly have third parties holding seats.
That’s… More or less in agreement with what I said, though? The electoral college certainly doesn’t help matters, but the same principle still holds without it, the EC just adds a second hierarchical level of fptp