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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1209)	1/14/2003 1:30:36 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 25898

Incredible 2-party, yes <The Usual Suspects invited:> Ouch, that capital decapitation, as well as the only one using the Westinghouse-GE executioners current. <Gee, that oppressive dictatorship, Britain, looks like it's almost only 2 parties:> Flaunting your ignorance on the UK dilemma they have been working on for decades?? As wel as the regular definition on 2-party systems, in and outside the representive, elected institutions. (OK, I admit, that was clearly too difficult too) <But just in case you missed it in your benighted ignorance, the US does in fact have quite a few political parties:> Yes, lots of thrid parties, really the funniest of the funnies of seats in the congress, but clearly within the frameworks of regular USA ignorance. <And if you believe it is impossible to have a working democracy with only 2 parties, you are dumber than I thought. > Yes, unfettered ignorance is unfettered, globally, but luckily there is only one pure 2-party system left behind centuries of history, carefully guarded by censorship. Ilmarinen Btw, the censorship was lifted some 7-8 years ago in UK, despite no constitution on freedom of the press, but re-instated very fast. However, lots of little droppings left on the internet for anyone with access to a search engine, and only skilled in one language. Btw, between those somewhat 2-party systems, not as pure as USA, Canada is much more interesting than UK, who is working really hard to reform. That is, if one isn't really interested in Malta. That is, to get some info in the native language, try a search on "proportional representation" and concentrate on UK, or on USA up to the 30-40s. That was how it kind of started in the early 1800s for the angloamerican world. Another possibility is to ask Nadina why Israel does not have a 2-party system, although the same question can be made to any non-anglo-american citizen or colonialist. In case you have really severe problems with that early 1800s thing called proportional representation, you can always try me.