The You Can't Make This Shit Up Department

[Jenny A]

The thing is controlling fascism IS controlling the government and limiting it. Why? Because fascism advocates a regime of 'all for the nation, none against the nation', your interests are submitted to the nation's interest and you lose your rights, the government controls everything from schools to the media and they control who works and how much you produce... Basically in fascism there is a lot of government control and planning, therefore preventing fascism is preventing government planning, it's precisely because we don't trust governments that once appeared nice that we limited fascism, if fascism reached power the same story would repeat again.

Theoretically, our current system of government with checks and balances makes such a regime impossible, but don't ask me about it in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm curious to ask something, is your two party system based solely on two parties, or are there actually other minor parties that no one votes in?

No, there are other political parties and here and there they hold an elected office or two. And we've changed which two are prominent from time to time. Lincoln was a Republican which was a relatively new party at the time he was elected.

Your system seems similar to the british bipartidary system

No, not really. The British have a parliamentary system in which parliament is ultimately in control as it elects the Prime Minister and can oust him at anytime, abet at the price of immediate general election. All members of parliament are elected at once.

We have two independent legislative houses, neither of which elects the president, who may be and often is of a different party than the majority in one or both houses. Both houses are required to pass legislation. Absent impeachment and a trial the legislature cannot oust the president. It's been tried twice, but we've never removed a sitting president by impeachment, though Nixon resigned in the face of it.

Further our elections of house and senate members are staggered so only a few legislators are up for election in any election year.