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Originally Posted by thefictionweliv
I don't think that it will necissarily be that way, as the 3rd Party candidates all have a plan for ballot, election reform that would allow the views and candidates from other parties to be put in the open. Essentially they aren't going to forget where they came from. This would better suit America's diversity than the current tyranny of the Rep/Dem parties.
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It is not a matter of forgetting where they came from, although that would eventually happen too. It is a matter of once they got there, they would want to stay there and that, by nature, means moving to the middle. Consider that for the most part 3rd parties in this country are all either right or left of the Dem/Rep parties, making them more partisan in nature. To stay in power, they would have to appeal to a wider group as the fringe might get them into power but could not keep them there.
An other thing to consider is that a 3rd party member has no real power once elected either. They have to throw in with either the Dem or Rep part to get any where in Congress. The whole of the current legislative process is set up to benefit the current TWO major parties and to work against independents or 3rd parties. That is really why there are only parties today. There have been times in history that there were more than two but they were very regional in nature. I very much doubt that we will ever see a truely successful nation 3rd party under the Federal system.