It's a two party system because everyone in US tries their hardest to keep it a two party system. Every election is the most important one ever, so there are "no options".

Instead of this, you can stop acting myopic towards elections and punish your party (vote the other one, 3rd party, or even write-in Bernie Sanders/Ron Paul) and force the political powers to answer accordingly if they want your vote for the next time.

You do not understand your own country's electoral system.

Question: in a first past the post electoral system, what happens if the vote between two parties in a three party election is split 35% and 20%? Does either party take power? Do any of their candidates take power?

NO.

The other party wins - with 45% of the vote. EVERY TIME.

Third parties in the US literally cannot win, unless some mysterious outcome hands them an immediate largest share of the vote. Which isn't going to happen in one electoral cycle, which means the ascendancy of such a party has to involve decades of losses for whichever party they accidentally poach more voters from each cycle.

Last time I checked, there were six parties in my country's general assembly. Also in my country, in your situation two parties would have to form a coalition to form a government as none of them would have the necessary majority in the assembly.

> Remember to vote Republican!

In NYC and SF? Sure. Or Greens, Independents, Socialists, anyone but Democrats.

I'd be giving the same advice to anyone from Alabama about voting not Republican.

Politics isn't about good and evil, it's about who gets what. If people who keep failing to give you what you want keep getting your vote they will keep doing what they were doing.

Alabama has one of the lowest homelessness rates in the country. What's wrong with Alabama? :)