92. Breaking the Duopoly Loop – Nathan Smolensky
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The episode discusses the vulnerabilities of the two-party duopoly in politics and the potential for independent challenges.
Are we really trapped in a permanent political doom loop, or is the two-party duopoly actually more vulnerable than it looks? We often look at heavily gerrymandered, "safe" districts and hyper-partisan outrage and assume nothing can change until we get massive, far-off structural reform. But what if the major parties have aggressively optimized the system for a zero-sum, two-player game—and that very optimization has left them completely exposed to independent challenges? This wee...
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