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