John VanSickle wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> ... American politics will never surge forward.
> 
> Thank God for that.  The last time any country "surged" politically, a 
> guy named Adolph Hitler got elected.

Yep. I never said it was good or bad. Just that the system as implemented 
here makes it hard to get votes from a handful of people and still have an 
effect.

> There are no issues 
> where both parties want the people to decide for themselves, because 
> when that is the case, the topic is not an issue.  

That's actually a very insightful way of looking at it. Thanks!

> If you are not consistently with one party, you will lose support from 
> that party.  

And that's why parliament systems tend to have somewhat wackier people 
elected but each of whom seem to have less individual power.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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