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We can’t have more than two political parties, this is one of the major failings of our first-past-the-post voting system. CGP grey has made a couple of really good videos breaking down the why of this, but the tl;dr is that FPTP voting effectively necessitates strategic voting (voting against who you don’t want rather than for who you do want).
Until we move to something better, such as ranked choice voting, we’re always going to effectively have two parties.
I agree with you, but in this case it's likely the new party will act as a spoiler against the republicans, so I'm all for it. It might even open the door to a new progressive party splitting the democrat vote without guaranteeing a republican victory.
The UK has somehow managed to have multiple reasonable scale independent parties survive, but agreed.
The UK has, for some reason, 5 different voting systems, only one of which is FPTP.