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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (744292)	7/1/2006 7:30:37 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

"Who else is there to try?" I saw an hour-long news special on ABC last night... bemoaning the 'increasing polarization of American politics into Red and Blue camps....' All true --- but NOT ONCE did these news mavens point out the entirely OBVIOUS solution: remove the high 'ring fence' that this political oligopoly, (the 'Republi-crat Party' as I like to call them), and the Courts have erected around their political turf that is designed (and designed successfully I might add...) to keep all competition away from their fiefdom. In the nineteen century, America was AWASH with political ferment... and on into the early part of the 20th. century, it wasn't all that hard to start new political parties, or for older parties to transform themselves around new ideas. Democracy was vibrant. Tools aiding the growth of new parties and the introduction of new ideas and new potential leaders into the political arena... such as 'fusion voting' were common and legal in all the States. But, since then, the two big Parties (often acting through the Courts) have banned fusion voting in all but one State (New York which, because of fusion voting, still has a fairly active third Party: the Conservative Party), and raised 'ballot access regulations' and similar rules to stifle the growth of any new Parties, and to protect the turf of the political oligopoly. Participatory Democracy has, slowly and steadily, lost vigor and flexibility --- and our nation has suffered as a result. In fact, pretty much the only times the Reps. or the Dems agree with each other --- is when they are agreeing to stiffle any OTHER political groupings that might emerge to threaten them....