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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
I hope that people will soon decide that enough is enough and find third and fourth parties that represent them well enough to break the two-party hold on congress. I have no problem with Dems/Reps being in there, I just don't think that two groups can adequately represent such large segments of our population. With three or four major parties in power, no one group can go too crazy because they won't have a majority and won't be able to overrule everyone else.
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I think thats not quite true.
With two parties we have less wackjob influence than with more parties.
Imagine if say in the senate there were 36 republicans 40 democrats 11 communists 4 libertarians and 15 religious conservatives. To get anything done you would have to give into the demands of a fringe group.
Over all gridlock is good, I'd just like say 8 years of no democrat power in the senate to get rid of the entitlement spending. After that it can all just stay the course.