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Originally posted by Ustwo
I LIKE the two party system. Stability and gridlock are good. Going by a % of the population only gives the fringe groups more power....
Sure if you basically agree with the fringe group it sounds good. I'd love to see more libertarians in congress, but it goes the other way to. I can only cringe in horror of a green (communist) + democrat unholy alliance, with the greens being the key to a democrat majority.
...Government is best when its growth is stunted, its power crippled from birth, every roadblock is a blessing.
And...
{snipped hypothetical}A majority alone can not be trusted any more then a despot.
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Damnit, Ustwo! Every time I write you off you have to go an say something completely sensible like that. Efficiency is the enemy of deliberation, and, so far as legislation goes, deliberation is a good thing. Stability is good. Gridlock is good. You have hit the nail on the head!
And the tyranny of the majority is every bit as, well, tyrannical as any other tyranny.
Of course, you can look at the "alliance" between the goddamn Greens and the Democratic party a couple of way. If you are predisposed to dislike both, well, then you've got it nailed again. If you belive that the political center has moved too far toward the conservatives and authoritarians, as I do, then the whole phenomenon of a American goddamn Green party looks more like folks frustrated with the rightward motion of the Democratic Party during the Clinton administration trying to pull it back where it belongs. If the Democratic nominee for President is liberal, most or all of these folks will come back, leaving the goddamn Greens twisting in the wind. That's why I quote "alliance". It's not.
Still another way to look at it is that Greens are to Democrats as Fundamentalist pseudo-Christians are to Republicans. With luck, though, there will never be a goddamn Green leading this country. Would that I could say the same for Fundies.