Re: The key thing is to have center party.
You heedlessly overlook the risk of breakaway politics that the unchecked proliferation of political parties entails... It's a much more ominous portent for you yanks than for Europeans. In Europe, far-right, nationalistic parties (such as BNP, Front National,...) basically stand for the status quo: they want their countries to remain sovereign, hence they merely seek to hinder the European process (of integration)... However, in the US, the rise of a nationwide far-right party would be a whole another ball-game since it will seek to split up the Bible Belt from the Beltway, that is, from the Washington federal bureaucracy....
You say the key thing is to whip up a "center party", fine, but the sad thing is that, to define a center agenda, one needs extreme agendas to bracket it... It's because most European countries had both right and left extremist parties that moderate, social-democratic parties came up and somehow played off the extremes against each other... |
