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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (23587)	12/22/2009 12:24:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

As far as the general meme of the "two Parties not representing the people very well" I agree with you. (And have been convinced of that for a long time now....) I would argue that this has become possible, (the 'Republi-Crat' duopoly controlling all political power), by degrees throughout the 20th. Century... but PRIMARILY by their co-opting of the courts, which then allowed the duopoly to rewrite all the rules that relate to gaining ACCESS to the political arena. Gerrymandering was legally allowed, (when it should have been banned), and thus came to be the new 'norm'. The Parties were allowed to write into election laws such things as bans on "Fusion Voting" (the main method by which new political parties were born, and gained access to the ballot and to strength, back in the nineteenth century when we had MANY political parties rise and fall). State-by-state, fusion voting has been banned... until now only in one out of fifty states does it remain legal. That is why, to this day, there is still a vibrant Conservative Party in New York state. But --- it cannot grow any further, because fusion voting remains banned at the national level now. Other laws have been passed at the behest of the Republi-Crats to limit access to the ballot for new parties in all the states... and to keep a high ring fence around "their" political preserve. This is likely the main reason why the national Libertarian Party has had such difficulty in growing, despite the rather consistent, (and high), level of support for it's general principles. The game is RIGGED to protect the incumbent interests. And this works out to very much be against the interests of the nation as a whole....