r/NewsWithJingjing • u/Li_Jingjing • May 15 '23

Media/Video US two-party system in a nutshell👇

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u/jacktrowell Jul 06 '23

Relevant quotes

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."

-- Gore Vidal

“It’s as if we had two parties in Cuba and Fidel led one and I led the other.”

-- Raul Castro, about how Cuba political scene would look if they tried to be more like the USA

"The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party."

-- Noam Chomsky interviewed by Gabor Steingart, Der Spiegel Online, October 10, 2008

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

-- Julius Nyerere, First President of Tanzania

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-​Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle.

-- Eugene V. Debs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/16/raul-castro-us-democracy-cuban-communist-party