Corporate duopoly

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere

Corporate duopoly is a phrase used to describe the political situation in the modern United States, where the two ruling parties both serve the same corporate interests. These parties are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. They exist to provide a false sense of "competition" during election season.

The "first past the post" electoral system makes it difficult for third parties to compete for political power. In other bourgeois dictatorships (so-called "liberal democracies") such as those in Europe, there are far more political parties represented in parliaments and congresses.