#multipartisan

Another difference is related to Julian Sanchez's observation about the artificality of America's bipolar two-party system and the way it flattens disparate philosophical commitments onto a single left-right axis. Because the Dutch political scene is divided between a plethora of different parties, it hasn't become obligatory to adhere to climate-change scepticism for conservative tribal-recognition purposes, certainly not if you're affiliated with a centre-right party such as the Liberals or Christian Democrats. The American system exacerbates these kinds of conflicts by forcing allegiances on all sorts of unrelated issues into tight alignment.