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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: stsimon who wrote (316103)11/1/2016 12:23:26 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 540725
 
I don't think that is clear. If you had three parties, what would be their differentiating philosophies?

I think the two-party system represents something intrinsic about the human species. In a nutshell, one philosophy wants to go forward and one wants to conserve the status quo. "Liberal and conservative."

If you look at other democracies, you will see that they generally come down to two major parties as well and I think there is a specific reason for that. Forward and stasis.

The two parties in the United States represent two specific lines of thought. The Democratic Party, the Liberal party, is based on new ideas based on science and reason. The Republican Party, the conservative party, wants to hold to the established norms and mores.To conserve the culture.

Some talk about needing a third party, and I always respond, what would that party look like? What would be its philosophy? And of course no one can come up with anything viable, because there isn't a third viable philosophy I can think of.

Do you have an idea of what a third party's philosophy would be?

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As long as we continue limiting ourselves to the two party system, it is generally going to be our crooks against their crooks and our party hacks against their party hacks.
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