Just to be clear, how “early on” is “early on?” Twenty years? Fifty years? A hundred? I’ll give you a second to Google it so you can decide where the goalposts are.
They’ve settled into the two current parties because of one reason: a lack of will to change. There are other countries that have FPTP where the parties are not so static. Yes, it’s a barrier. No, it is not insurmountable.
Fundamentally, there is no political system that is impossible to change. Monarchies were extremely hard to change, and yet they did, once the will was there. Political systems are designed and maintained by human beings. Treating them as if they were some innate, unchanging law of the universe is as delusional as thinking that the Supreme Court could overturn the law of gravity by finding it unconstitutional.
And indeed, our current system is unsustainable. It is, objectively, going to run up against physical constraints. It will bend or break. Trump is already an example of that. It’s very simple: adapt, or die.
Just to be clear, how “early on” is “early on?” Twenty years? Fifty years? A hundred? I’ll give you a second to Google it so you can decide where the goalposts are.
They’ve settled into the two current parties because of one reason: a lack of will to change. There are other countries that have FPTP where the parties are not so static. Yes, it’s a barrier. No, it is not insurmountable.
Fundamentally, there is no political system that is impossible to change. Monarchies were extremely hard to change, and yet they did, once the will was there. Political systems are designed and maintained by human beings. Treating them as if they were some innate, unchanging law of the universe is as delusional as thinking that the Supreme Court could overturn the law of gravity by finding it unconstitutional.
And indeed, our current system is unsustainable. It is, objectively, going to run up against physical constraints. It will bend or break. Trump is already an example of that. It’s very simple: adapt, or die.