$ ~edev jim@extroverteddeveloper ../../posts homeprojectsblog

$ cd ~/blog && $ cat politics-in-the-animal-kingdom.md

Politics in the Animal Kingdom

2025-07-06·1 min read

With all this talk of 3rd parties I felt like it was important to resurface this excellent series of videos on the game theory of different voting systems and why it’s mathematically impossible for a “first past the post” voting system to support more than 2 parties.

It’s the voting system that’s the issue folks