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To: tejek who wrote (234769)	5/26/2005 7:06:55 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577893

re: It will be very difficult to come up with a third party. The FF did not like the European model of multi parties and intentionally constructed a political structure that was designed for a two party system. I think its why both parties have become overconfident through the years. The last part is key... they are so overconfident that they don't reflect the will of the people. I'm 100% convinced that the time is ripe for a 3rd party. The Dems and Reps are both ideological, and both moving to the right. Neither represent the majority of the US, both are tools of the ideological or economic special interests. Wake up, you are not a Dem. What do you have in common with the folks that are running the Dem party. You love the war? The real conservatives should think the same way about the Rep party. Are they evangelical? A third party might not be successful, but it might bring some sanity to the process. A centerist, pragmatic Party that favors the middle class might bring America back to it's roots. It might make these guys realize that that represent people, not dogma. John

To: tejek who wrote (234769)	5/27/2005 12:17:22 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

"The FF did not like the European model of multi parties and intentionally constructed a political structure that was designed for a two party system." No quite true. The original model had no parties at all. When that didn't work, the Federalists grew up, to be countered by the anti-Federalists. Which flamed out in such a manner that it is the source of the common knowledge that in politics you have to be for something and just not against something. In the vacuum of that collapse, the Democratic-Republicans formed, and they later became the Democratic party. Since then, there have been a number of 3rd parties come and go... But there isn't anything special about the two party system. It is just what we trend towards.