<span>A tsar was removed from the people and was rarely seen.
The tsar of the early 1900s was an absolute monarch with much control and answered little to the people. Though there were attempts at reform and the creation of a representative body called the Duma, the Tsar, especially Nicholas II, was known to shut it down or event attempted to remove it. Nicholas II would be the last tsar of Russia being forced to abdicate, step down, his throne in 1917. </span>
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In my opinion, both major parties, Democrats & Republicans, eliminate third parties and their agendas because they exert dominant control over third parties and their candidates in that it is too much money Democrats and Republicans collect via donations from their followers. This money is used to organize and operate the political campaigns and buy all kinds of advertising through traditional media and social media. Third parties do not the money and infrastructure to represent a real threat to those two established and traditional parties in the United States. Among the third parties that have competed in US elections of the past, we find the Whig Party, Federalist Party, and National Republican Party, Populist Party, and Progressive Party.