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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1907)	7/17/2003 1:00:36 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7841

Yes, two-party systems, when the two parties unite, make it very easy to manipulate the population. (also possible when they "fight" to keep up the "circus" while some third parties always can be trusted to grab the possibility) As in the case of UK, also good to avoid any "influence from the colonies" but all the more in the other direction. One issue is as basic as debate in the parliamant if it consists of only these two parties, or if there "third parties" who maybe sees an opportunity to point out what the two parties are doing. Note that this also gets coverage by the media. Ilmarinen Old russian joke: we, poor russians, only have one dictatorial party, you, rich americans, you have two (...dictatorial parties)