Wednesday, October 1, 2008
From Seth
I need to remark on a notion that I would've thought was self-evident, but apparently isn't. A two-party system does not mean only two takes on any given issue. Parties consist of groups of people with similar ideologies about most issues. Those ideologies often conflict, and within any ideology that is under the fold of a given party, there can be numerous ways to approach an issue. All ideas are welcome, some just suck.
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Exactly - hence my earlier comment about primaries.
Exactly. I thought the point was implicit there, but I guess it needed to be spelled out.
Problem comes when corporations get into your political system.
You then find yourself keeping a small military presence in the Mid east. to help pay back lockheed martin who gave you tons of money to compete to be president...
Or like when you are run by oil and invade the middle east to get more of it.
Things like this corrupt the political system and ruin a two party structure... Well dems were ok up until 1984 when they started meeting with lobbyists to compete with the repubs... Since then there is not difference which coporation you want to win? pick...
No need for arrogance with the self-evident comment either. Especially after you are proven wrong.
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