But the cause of the two party system is our voting system . A first past the post voting system naturally leads to a two party system , and also leads to the bipolar nature of our politics where each side first panders to their base . It ' s basically a mess . Just take an example if our voting system was ranked i . e . , your first choice gets 3 points , your second choice gets 2 , your last gets 1 , and people you hate get 0 then someone who received all 2 votes would win against bipolar candidates who received all 3 s and 0 s . As a computer scientist , our political system has bugs that need to be fixed so it can be effective . <| sep |> Love how well Cousins is playing . The only shitty thing is my opponent has Reed .