| | | Maybe, but if we did have a viable 3rd party that was moderate and had belief systems that picked the best from both parties, then this third party could not only run it's own agenda, but on specific topics pick up votes from either party. Alternatively, they could back one party on fiscal conservatism and the other party on green energy, for example.
The thing a lot of Americans don't pay attention to is the Democracy in other countries. I have watched how Parliaments work in other countries and am beginning to believe that is superior. Parliaments can have many, many parties, but to win power they need to form coalitions. These coalitions promise to support a broad range of policy positions. It's a bigger tent policy.
Contrast this with a GOP and Dem base that is becoming smaller and isolating more and more people. I fled the GOP because they decided that "deficits don't matter", that endless war and military spending, propping up Dictators in the Middle East, Religious Evangelism, and anti-science were core elements of their belief system. Then I landed in the Dem party and realized these folks are Socialists and Communists who believe in "deficits don't matter times ten", central economic planning, Capitalism is bad but Crony-Capitalism where they get to choose who gets the spoils is good, Bankers don't need to be prosecuted, and if healthcare is broken the best way to fix it is to spend money we don't have to create yet another massive inept gov't bureaucracy to break it even more. So both parties are loony and bat shit.
I don't care about how hard it is to get a viable 3rd party in this country, but we desperately need one. |
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