Why do I have hundreds of flavors of ice cream to choose from and only 2 flavors of political parties?

Because Government is a scam?

You have more than 2 parties to choose from.

1 Democrat

2. Republican

3. Libertarian

4. Independent

5. Conservative

I know there is one more but I will have to think about it.

Some people think if you don't vote Republican or Democrat you are throwing away your vote.

Not true. The only way to throw away your vote is to vote for who the media is promoting will win.

This is their personal opinion.

In the past Independents and other parties won because people voted for WHO they liked not a particular party.

We need to get away from party voting and vote for the BEST people. No matter whose party or not

Independent, free thinker.

List of past president and affiliations

Democrat

1.Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)

2.Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)

3.James K. Polk (1845–1849)

4.Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)

5.James Buchanan (1857–1861)

6.Andrew Johnson[n 1] (1865–1869)

7.Grover Cleveland (1885–1889), (1893–1897)

8.Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

9.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

10.Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

11.John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)

12.Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)

13.Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

14.Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

15.Barack Obama (2009–present

Republican

1.Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)

2.Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)

3.Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)

4.James A. Garfield (1881)

5.Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)

6.Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

7.William McKinley (1897–1901)

8.Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

9.William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

10.Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

11.Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

12.Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

13.Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)

14.Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

15.Gerald Ford (1974–1977)

16.Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

17.George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)

18.George W. Bush (2001–2009)

Whig

1.William Henry Harrison (1841)

2.John Tyler[n 2] (1841–1845)

3.Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)

4.Millard Fillmore (1850–1853

Democrat-Republican

1.Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)

2.James Madison (1809–1817)

3.James Monroe (1817–1825)

4.John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

Federalist

John Adams (1797–1801)

Independent

George Washington (1789–1797) is currently the only president to have been elected without any official endorsement by a political party. Generally speaking, Washington's policies reflected a moderate Federalist agenda. He governed for 8 years in total.

John Tyler and Andrew Johnson were effectively independent for part of their terms but since they were also members of the Whig and Democratic Party, respectively, for parts of their term they are traditionally counted as members of that party.

In most countries that have multiple political parties, they all form coalitions that basically break down into two groups. For example, I am in Japan. They have many parties, but it basically breaks down into the conservative parties on one side and liberal parties on the other. When they vote, they do so in 2 coalitions.

So it really doesn't make a difference in the long run.

Probably the same reason there are thousands of shower curtains to choose from but only 2 political parties. On one side there is a consumable and on the other side you have people which are generally not consumable.

Just last month, for the first time ever the "3rd party" NDP finished second here in Canada.

Some times they don't even finish second.

Don't lose hope!

- 17R3W

Because the effects a group of people have on our lives and the future of our country is not so much a novelty as what gets put on your waffle cone?

Simple. It's designed that way. Vote Libertarian.

because every body likes ice cream.

What's worse is that your choices are:

1. Liberal

2. Even more liberal

How many degrees of liberal do you need?