Two-Party System: Third Parties Need Not Apply

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Comedy Central

Politics, News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.5 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The first presidential debate is here, and voters do not seem thrilled with the two, very different candidates. How does a consumerist country built on choice produce so few options? This week, helping us to understand our two party system and why third parties don’t work within it, we’re joined by Max Stearns, Law Professor at University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and the author of “Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy,” as well as Sam Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, and the co-author, with Daniel Schlozman, of “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.” Together, they help us to understand the flaws in how our current system functions and offer some possible remedies going forward. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Researcher – Catherine Nouhan Music by Hansdale Hsu --- This podcast is brought to you by: ZipRecruiter Try it for free at this exclusive web address: ziprecruiter.com/ZipWeekly NetSuite For more info, head to netsuite.com/Weekly --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	John Stewart is back in the host chair at the Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on the Daily Show Ears Edition podcast.
0:08.0	The Daily Show podcast has everything you need to stay on top of today's news and pop culture. You get hilarious satirical
0:15.1	takes on entertainment, politics, sports, and more from John and the team of
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0:25.1	extended interviews and a roundup of the weekly headlines. Listen to the
0:29.4	Daily Show, EARS Edition, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello everybody. Welcome to the weekly show with John Stewart. My name is John Stewart. I am your host of the podcast.
0:48.4	We will be enjoying a conversation today concerning.
0:51.6	Guys, I'm just trying to, so when I come into the podcast, I really don't know what level of energy we're talking, of course.
0:59.0	It's the Weekly Show, uh, podcast with John Stewart, I'm John Stewart. I've got the Uber producer team
1:04.9	Brittany Memedevick and Lauren Walker with me and we have been discussing what is the
1:09.1	appropriate level of energy to bring to a podcast on the show I'm usually shot out of a cannon because I got
1:16.2	the Biden cocktail.
1:17.6	They shoot right into my ass or the Trump cocktail to make me ramble.
1:21.2	But either way, I'm fired up. So today, the show is going to air.
1:26.6	We're taping it the day before, but the show is airing before, it's going to be right before the debates the presidential debates so you may be
1:36.0	listening to this podcast prior to watching debates or you may be listening to this
1:40.4	podcast in your disaster bunker after listening to the to this
1:45.0	the podcast in your disaster bunker after listening to those debates because I'm assuming
1:47.0	The bar has been set relatively low
1:50.0	if you're watching the news if both men make it through these 90 minutes without either passing away or starting a war,
2:00.8	we will consider it a grand success for the country and for the democracy.
2:06.7	But the big controversy of course is what are the criterion so that a third party can't make it in there because this election
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