Maybe not the best reason but I don’t see how this didn’t contribute to the problem. If you’re not full on MAGA you’re basically labeled a leftist. If you’re not progressive you’re a Nazi enabler. We’re all more complex than that but we get boiled down to “what our party believes in”. Even though some parties are fake opposition it’s more expensive and inefficient to fund multiple parties and party leaders and keep up the facade of independence. It’s not a cure but it insulates our system slightly from centralized corruption.

Getting money out of politics (or at least campaigns) altogether would be the biggest positive change we could make.