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

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (754811)	11/21/2006 10:20:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"They just don't seem to win elections though....' No new political Parties have been able to gain much ground for a century or so... though, in the nineteenth century, we had new Parties (& new political ideas) springing up all the time. What is different? Well, IMO, the two dominant Parties have 'conspired' to erect a 'ring fence' around the political turf that they occupy, and make it very difficult for any competition to emerge and gain traction... potentially to threaten their positions. (And, when I say 'conspire', I mean both Parties only doing what comes naturally to them... while Reps and Dems continue to oppose each other election after election, the only time they can be counted on to present a united front is when their turf is threatened by 'outsiders'.) Things such as enacting, State-by-State, high barriers to ballot access for new Parties, and banning things such as "cross-over voting" which ONCE was the norm across the land, and allowed new Parties to grow and gain political strength gradually --- but only survives today in one out of the 50 States. No, it really isn't surprising that our political system has been rigged to entrench an oligopoly of two --- an awful lot of time, expense, and work has gone into creating just those conditions.