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But there doesn't seem to be any way to fix it. For one thing, the two parties are in charge of any reform, and they're in no hurry to put themselves out of business. It's effectively impossible for a third party to gain any serious power in the USA, and that's by design. After the leftist party came within a spitting distance of power in the 1890s, the Dems and Repubs got together and cooked the system, banning and erecting other structural barriers.

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