Does America Need a Third Party?

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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While the two-party system has been the standard in the US government, third parties have often challenged this status quo and now advocates to be added to election ballots permanently. Those who agree say third parties offer non-partisan solutions and are more representative of ideologies, unlike the polarized partisanship present now. Those who disagree say the two-party system fosters stability and simplifies voting decisions. Now we debate: Does America Need A Third Party? Arguing Yes: Andrew Yang, Founder of the Forward Party, Former Presidential Candidate Arguing No: Daniel DiSalvo, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute; Political Science Professor at City College of New York–CUNY Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is open to debate. I'm John Don Van.
0:05.0	Hi everybody and what an election year it has been just so far.
0:12.0	And that's just so far.
0:13.0	And that's just so far.
0:14.6	Today we're sharing a debate we recorded a year ago.
0:17.0	That's right, a year ago when everything seems so different about this election.
0:20.9	Back then we were staring down the barrel of an election cycle that nobody seemed really to one
0:25.0	Trump versus Biden. At that time we decided to ask some questions.
0:29.0	Does America need a third party?
0:32.0	Is the two-party system at fault for how stagnant our democracy
0:35.3	feel sometimes and how impoverished our choices appeared to be? Now nearly a year later it's
0:40.9	a very different race than any of us could have predicted even
0:43.4	six months ago.
0:44.6	We have Kamala at the top of the Democratic ticket with unprecedented rallying around her in the
0:49.0	past few weeks.
0:50.0	We have Tim Walsh going from Minnesota governor to a household name.
0:53.7	Trump is still the Republican nominee, but he has a vice presidential pick that has proved
0:57.7	controversial even within his own party.
1:00.3	And while there are some third party candidates in this race, Jill Stein of the Green Party,
1:04.8	RFK Jr, running as an independent until he threw his support to Donald Trump,
1:09.3	there were no big unexpected twists in the landscape. That's said as usual third-party
1:15.0	candidates in the running are generally considered threatening particularly for
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