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The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice
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They kept voting for the conservatives for a while after Brexit. They kept voting for Boris fucking Johnson.
To be fair the other side was just as much for brexit as the tories
To be fair, we don't have only two options. The Greens, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, and SNP were all opposed to Brexit.
You could say the same about the US though, but we still have the same shitty voting system that ultimately boils down to 2 parties barring massive upheaval.
Not at all, look at the linked map. We've only one party in ultimate control which flicks between the big two but we don't have only 2 parties with any viable chance at politics at all. The SNP etc, despite having no executive power, still manage to influence political thought. The same can't really be said for the USA in any meaningful way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#/media/File:2024_United_Kingdom_general_election_-_Result.svg
Except of Scotland none of these got enough votes, I guess it wasn't important enough to sway most voters at that time.