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khyber
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Location: Compunction Junction
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| One good thing about the US system is that it keeps the extremists out. |
who wants to go to a gellato house with peanut butter, green tea, or rocky road and dozens of other choices when all you need is vanilla or vanilla with nuts!s!
I mean really? what's so great about that? If you have extremists wouldn't that be better than two parties that are virtually identical? And besides, there are some extremists in the populace! Maybe that's where the other 60ish% of the population would cast their votes.
Maybe they'd want something more tropical, chocolatey, crunchy, tastey than vanilla. |
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Hank Scorpio
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Maybe they'd want something more tropical, chocolatey, crunchy, tastey than vanilla. |
A) Oldest functioning republic in the world.
B) Oldest still in use constitution in the world.
C) Except for the civil war, has been about as rock solid a form of government as the world has ever seen. Case in point, even during the Depression socialism only gained an extremely limited foothold while most European nations saw communism, fascism, and socialism increase, and sometimes take over those nations.
And you want to chuck that all away because you don't feel you have enough choices at the buffet? No thanks. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| better than two parties that are virtually identical? |
Usually I only hear this from someone who knows next to nothing about the parties or else has some flakey political view. I don't know khyber well enough to know which, if either, category he/she fits into. |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| I can hazard a guess that what Kyhber means by "virtually identical" is "equally unsuitable". |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| One good thing about the US system is that it keeps the extremists out. |
who wants to go to a gellato house with peanut butter, green tea, or rocky road and dozens of other choices when all you need is vanilla or vanilla with nuts!s!
I mean really? what's so great about that? If you have extremists wouldn't that be better than two parties that are virtually identical? And besides, there are some extremists in the populace! Maybe that's where the other 60ish% of the population would cast their votes.
Maybe they'd want something more tropical, chocolatey, crunchy, tastey than vanilla. |
No I am glad there are no practicing Klansmen in the US senate or house. I am not bothered that far right and the far left have no one in washington that represents their views. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Hank Scorpio wrote: |
| khyber wrote: |
Maybe they'd want something more tropical, chocolatey, crunchy, tastey than vanilla. |
A) Oldest functioning republic in the world.
B) Oldest still in use constitution in the world.
C) Except for the civil war, has been about as rock solid a form of government as the world has ever seen. Case in point, even during the Depression socialism only gained an extremely limited foothold while most European nations saw communism, fascism, and socialism increase, and sometimes take over those nations.
And you want to chuck that all away because you don't feel you have enough choices at the buffet? No thanks. |
Agreed. I'll take the acclaim of history and the consensus of political philosophers spanning two centuries over some strange ice cream analogy. We have fifty states, not fifty flavors. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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And nowhere in the constitution is there a provision for how many political parties there should be.
The frozen house size is not on the constitutional menu, either. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:08 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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And nowhere in the constitution is there a provision for how many political parties there should be.
The frozen house size is not on the constitutional menu, either. |
No, but the Constitutionally mandated winner take all system effectively imposes a two party system. |
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