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To: TimF who wrote (5549)	6/12/2007 7:49:30 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "Its is true that the two parties have manipulated the system to their own advantage. But that really isn't the biggest reason they have an advantage." Sure it is! For example, throughout the nineteenth century, (& into the first decades of the 20th.), we always had a vibrant array of political parties... new ones emerging and growing or dying out... their ideas (if good) subsumed into other parties' platforms, or else fueling the rise of the new party to political success. (The policy of 'Fusion Voting' --- which was common throughout the United Sates until after WW II, and now remains legal only in New York State, was one of the rules of the political road that enabled new parties to get their ideas out to the public. They could issue endorsements of other parties candidates who embraced or embodied their platforms, and from their own unique line on the ballot it helped candidates see just how much support was out there for these ideas. It's NO COINCIDENCE that the only state remaining that the Conservative Party as a still active political force [along with Dem and Rep] is New York state... and it's because they still have legal fusion voting rules.) Like I posted: The two dominant 'establishment' Parties have GAMED the political system for well-over a century now, erecting a high 'ring fence' around their preserves to keep interlopers from ever gaining a purchase.... (Just as any self-respecting Guild or Union or Business Oligopoly would, seeking to preserve their powers.)