Jack you wrote,
<<Third party anyone?>>
And I couldn't help but hear echoes of wisdom emanating once again from the Framers of our Constitution.
Your profile says you enjoy history and philosopy, so you might enjoy a passage from Madison's Federalist Paper No. 51:
"It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a commmon interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. There are but two methods of providing against this evil: . . ." [my comment--he argues against the first method, alluding to what kings and dictators have tried] ". . . the other by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens, as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole, very improbable, if not impracticable."
" . . . [this] second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the United States, Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as for the religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. . . ."
<<Third party anyone?>>
How 'bout a fourth, fifth, sixth....
LET THE PARTIES BEGIN!!!
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