What's the closest thing to a one-party state? [View All]

A two-party state.

America boasts that we are the free-est, the greatest democracy in the world. When in reality it's not much more than a borderline one-party state--a borderline dictatorship. And has been for the past 100 years or so since the last of the major third parties in the country ceased to exist. So now virtually all alternative voices are effectively shut out of the political process.

It seems to me, the elites and the powers that be would prefer the one-party state if they could get away with it. Because that would be even easier to control. But since it would look really bad in the eyes of the world, it must allow the 'two-party' system to exist in order to at least maintain an appearance of democracy.

So the two-party system is the best of both worlds. They get to preserve and enjoy the full benefits of a system which preserves their near-absolute power, while avoiding the appearance of a totalitarian state! Problem solved.

My contention is, any system which offers you basically two choices, and not a diverse variety of choices, cannot be considered a democracy. A borderline one-party state, (which by definition the two-party state effectively is) does not a vibrant, robust democracy make.