Opus wrote:
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Opus wrote:

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I like the Democratic Party. Good luck. You'll need it.


So you *like* the "ignorant, incompetent assholes who've been running our
country?"

The Republicans have been running the country, totally, for at least 6
years.


See, that's the problem with you partisan types. You refuse to admit that
your party is culpable for anything beyond ignorance.

Let's see. You're trying to get me to support some third party that
doesn't exist. At least, I assume it doesn't exist because there's no
third party in the US that (a) I would even consider voting for in my
wildest nightmare, or (b) has the slightest chance of winning even a
seat in Congress. Which one were you thinking about? Lyndon LaRouche's
Labor Party? The Green Party? The Libertarian Party? They're all nut
cases AFAIC.

I think a system of two dominant parties is a very good system AS LONG
AS ONE PARTY DOESN'T GET NEARLY TOTAL CONTROL! That's what's happened in
the past six years, and that's what will change in January.

The world view and the policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic
Party suit me fine with only a few exceptions (if you don't like that,
tough), but I wouldn't want to see them in complete control of the
government. As Lord Acton said, power corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.

There are serious problems with large numbers of relatively small
political parties. They individually lack broad support (by definition)
and tend to be focused on narrow issues. They are typically guided by a
rigid and extreme ideology. In parliamentary systems it's often
necessary to create coalitions of several parties to form a government,
and the government is then hostage to the demands of the most extreme
minority. We see this happening now in Iraq, where Al-Malaki's so-called
government can't stand up to the Shiite militias because he needs their
political support. It also happens in relatively "mature" parliamentary
democracies, as well, like Israel, where the hard-line right wing has
been able to block progress on a "land for peace" solution to the
Palestinian problem, even though a majority of Israelis support it.

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