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I do support third parties but I fear if they gained power the same fate would face them.
It has happened many times in our history. Once a third party becomes very popular it finds its platform stolen by one or both of the majors and falls into a useless state. There are twi kinds of third parties, those of the great personality and those of the great idea. Neither can survive once the major parties either take the personality or the idea for themselves. We can only change the Constitution to do what you are calling for.
How do you think that east coast people get to know west coast people without someone to tell them about them. I think that you, like the OP, need to give some serious thought to what you are saying. I have given many years of thought to the situation since I am so old.
Are you serious?? In this day and age???
People are friending me on Facebook from Belarus.
If you read before jumping to conclusions, no one is saying people cannot campaign and make adds.
People did it 200 years ago without CNN, without Youtube, without the internet, why do you think it would be soooo hard in 2012.
But only for those who don't really understand why political parties come into being and why they are so necessary. You can read on in this thread and see me explain why they have to be and why third and fourth and so on parties can never really work. It is the Presidential system established by our Constitution. Really it would be nice if more people here could understand the facts here.
In a system like that of the European countries, what we call parliamentary, your suggestion works pretty well. However, our Constitution calls for the Presidential system and having more than two parties could only weaken the government since more than that would cause too much dissension in Congress.
Think about this after you study our Constitution and the system of government it calls for.
OMG what are you talking about??? The Country survived pretty well AND WITH LESS DISENTION with 5 parties than our current two.
with multiple parties there is a greater chance that no one will win a majority and thus a greater need for a coalition which = more cooperation.
Right now all we have is Democrats saying Yes and Republicans saying no or vice versa
Yes. It creates too much conflict, double standards, and confusion.
How about telling us how our system would work in a nation that extends for over 1500 miles from east to west and well over 500 from north to south. I will await your explanation with bated breath.
But only for those who don't really understand why political parties come into being and why they are so necessary. You can read on in this thread and see me explain why they have to be and why third and fourth and so on parties can never really work. It is the Presidential system established by our Constitution. Really it would be nice if more people here could understand the facts here.
The Constitution says nothing about the political party system.
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