QUESTION 4 Why don't third parties last very long in the United States? they third parties tend to focus on issues no one cares about the US started with two parties and Inertia keeps that going the media does not enough attention to them the two major parties work quietly in the background preventing their rise they convert public O policy into public opinion for the same reason third parties don't O last long in other democracies in the world third parties O issues tend to be normative its single- member district system convert public O opinion into public policy third parties are over- regulated by the government more than the major parties