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Re: 58 percent of Americans want a third political party |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Sep 26 14:20:40 2014, in response to 58 percent of Americans want a third political party, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Sep 26 13:40:08 2014. It'd really be a second party, since the "Pubs" and "Dems" are really the Uniparty.Much like a stopped clock, you have currently issued a rare statement which is perfectly correct, purely by coincidence, for the wrong reasons. Such a system generally favors two parties — a center-right and a center-left party — that have the ability to assemble a winning plurality or majority in districts and states across the country. Generally, yes— if either party pulls away from the center, it loses votes. However, the Republican party took a gamble in pulling to the right, and it paid off— rather than wait at the center and exercise their advantage, the Democrats figured that if they followed the Republicans to the right but remained just left of them, then a larger percentage of the voters would be "closer" to them. After all, it's not like people will vote third-party or write-in or simply stay home having been alienated by a system that cannot ever represent them. Obama and Romney both favour mass surveillance, the torture and murder of US citizens without oversight, and handing billions of dollars of taxpayer money to the already rich, who are given immunity for all their past crimes and given free rein to defraud and steal. But Obama is a bit less sexist— while Romney wants women to be declared legally male property, Obama is merely apathetic and is generally willing to see both sides on the issue of whether women are human. Surely, you will rush to the polls and vote for the lesser evil! Which is why we now have a hard-right party and an extreme-right party— and that is why we need to use procedural trickery to prevent a centrist third party who would easily win the vote from even getting onto the ballot in the first place. |
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