The two party system sucks

from JoeUser Forums

Unfortunately it is the best system of government in the world.

 

In a one party system you have wonderful leaders emerge like Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Saddam Husain, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jung Il and other great leaders.

 

In a multi party system like in Israel, Italy and the like you can elect a good leader only to have any number of opposition parties take you out with a vote of no confidence just so their leader can be in charge for a minute or two.

 

In a two party system you have the majority of people in one of four or six or ten parties depending on how you look at it.

 

In America we don’t really have a two party system. We have two major parties. Republicans and losers, ooops sorry I mean democrats. Within each of the two major parties you have the left wing the right wing, the liberal wing and the conservative wing, the moderates supposedly in the middle. Mixed in each party are the lunatic fringe groups. So it is really not a two party system. A liberal republican is just as stupid as a liberal democrat. Mr. Kennedy was a conservative democrat and Mr. Reagan was a conservative republican. Mr. Carter was a liberal democrat and Mr. Bush (pick one it does not matter) was a liberal republican.

 

Currently the democrats are ruled by the liberal wing and the republicans are influenced by the conservative wing. As a conservative I vote republican only because it is a party I still have influence. Even with a liberal president, as a conservative, I still have a say to some extent. This is not the case in the democrat party which is why they have not had the majority vote since President Carter.

 

Senator McCain is a liberal republican and got lackluster support from the party. He named a conservative running mate and the entire party got energized in 24 hours. He went from a slim chance in hell to having an overwhelming chance at becoming the next liberal president of the United States.

 

There are more conservatives in the country than there are republicans or democrats or liberals, when we like a candidate they get elected when we don’t the democrats win. That is a fact of life. With Governor Palin, Senator McCain has a better chance.

 

Senator Obama, chose a Washington insider and in doing so doomed his chances.

 

The two party system is a joke because we don’t have one in America.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

The founders hated parties - and so do I.  I have no more in common with Olympia Snowe than I do with Jim webb - yet they are in different parties.  I have some in common with Joe LIeberman (he was just kicked out of his old party), and a lot in common with Sarah Palin.  Yet when they get to DC, they all line up dutifully behind the loons that run their monkey show.

Many people hoped that Bush would stop the McCain/Fiengold usurption of people's rights.  He did not.  He may not be liberal, but he is no conservative.

And that is why I will never belong to a party.  I will not support a clown just because he has a letter behind his name.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

We are who we are because of those who do not take action.

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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top

Call it what you want but we are in a virtual two party system.  Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat it doesn't matter, in general when the party takes a stance on the issue that is the stance that is echoed by just about everyone in that party.  Also we have a system that makes it extremely difficult for anyone outside of the two major parties to get on a ballot, the result is that most ballots consist of almost all Democrats and Republicans.  So in essense we do have a two party system and it is horribly broken and corrupt.

The only way that I can see to fix this problme is two fold:
1) kick out all the incumbents.  The entire political system needs a major kick in the pants and a reminder that the elected officials work for US and NOT their party.
2) Vote for as many third party candidates as possible.  The more of them that we can get in office the better the chances are for future third party candidates to get on the ballots, if we can break the two major parties up enough then they can alter the rules so that third party candidates have an easier time getting on the ballot.

It's not going to change the game overnight, but given enough time and repeated use the plan will change the game.