An Experiment in Scotch

Often, I hear talk in the US about the dis­mal state of the two-party sys­tem in our polit­i­cal arena. Many times, the peo­ple talk­ing the most about it think we would be bet­ter off with more than two, some­times many more than two. While I believe that there may be some ben­e­fit to mul­ti­ple par­ties (by mul­ti­ple par­ties I mean more than two), remem­ber that, as in all design deci­sions, there are trade­offs. By spread­ing your resources (votes) across mul­ti­ple end­points (par­ties), the abil­ity to see sig­nif­i­cant results goes down dramatically.