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Is the two-party political system destroying the United States?
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A third party won't help, though I have no objection to any number of parties. The only thing that will help is to take BIG money OUT of the government. Get the capitalists that we need, to put their money into the COUNTRY, not the MEMBERS of the two parties! Keep the government OF, BY and FOR THE PEOPLE, not THE FEW, as it is in Russia.
If the 60 (more to come), corporations that pay NO taxes, paid their fair share of taxes, as well as those that only pay what they can't seem to get away from, we could HAVE affordable health care. If some (like the drug czars), would charge a reasonable profit rather than a "greedy", get rich quick profit, the whole economy would "get better". If the people are taxed more than they can afford, while capitalists are charged much LESS than they can afford, they will continue to reward their leaders with more money (As, I believe, it was Meghan McCain who said: "more than Jesus Christ would be worth!), and there will be more power at the top. Money = Power. This is NOT a "good economy", when, almost everyone has a job but they can't make ends meet, can't "put some away"! ANYONE who says this IS a good economy probably was born after we had the last one … or is being brainwashed. (OR, of course, they are the top 10% or so of the country :-)
It's NOT the two party system that's ruining U.S., it's the greed that is ruining the two party system! (AND, our democracy).
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I sometime wonder if the 2 party system is not in part responsible for the binary thinking, the Us vs Them / black & white / all or nothing mentality... If it's not in part responsible for the current polarization in politics... I wonder if this binary structure doesn't promote polarization and pushing everyone further to the left or the right, leaving virtually no place for centrism...
The GOP was a third party in 1854, it took only 6 years to get the presidency with Lincoln so there is precedent...
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There always needs to be back pressure toward any system to keep it from spiraling out of control. The reason dems and reps exist in bipartisan “harmony” (their duration together not their respect for each other) is due to the way they compliment each other in the sense of keeping that spiral in check. What one party lacks the other has in abundance and where one party falls short the other excels. Not perfectly, but better than a single party or any other existing party as a permanent replacement to either of the two
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I was there when he started the "Star Wars" program that could have easily started that nuclear war, had the Soviet Union had the financial resources to follow through. Luckily, their New leader was far more compatible to world peace than those before. I STILL consider the tax cuts for the rich and gutting of SS and Medicare to be insane, and it WOULD have led to the elderly eating dog food. Still, Reagan was open to negotiation with the Speaker of the House, and, as in previous years, they worked things out. He was NOT "another candidate that wasn't approved by the establishment". He was very popular with BOTH sides, even ME. I disagreed with him often, but he never lost my respect, or the respect of the country.
He broke some serious rules, an argument could be made that they were "impeachable". Nobody would have done it BECAUSE he was respected and nobody considered him as traitorous. Today, the division that came from the Gingrich era has the country unable to compromise, and unwilling, due to the lack of respect of (and for), the current occupier of the White House. HE is combining the "insanities" of the 80's AND the 90's, along with a lack of respect, to endanger the country (and the world), in different ways. There seems to be little question about sanity … if you love democracy. It has "left the building."
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Our government officials are a joke when it comes to doing the job that they are supposed to be doing. They should not be driven by party rules, personal opinions or personal dislikes. They should not be arguing people. They should be arguing issues that are important to us. Instead they waste millions of dollars attacking and defending each other and nothing is getting done at all. They think that we are ignorant, bless our hearts, and that we will just understand that they know what is best. Some of us are but many of us aren't.
I was a softball coach for years and I always told my teams that they are welcome to dislike each other and argue outside of the field but while they were supposed to be working together, there job was to work together for the whole team. That is what we need to be telling the bickering government representatives now. I don't care who you like or who you don't. I don't care who should have been President and who should not have. That ship sailed. Their job is to put their personal issues aside while they are together and focus solely on the best interests of this country and the people in it. Period. Debate and solve issues, not people.
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Every more or less significant party is going to consist of thousands, often millions, members. There is no way to genuinely support what the party stands for, since it stands for thousands or millions things, many of which are mutually contradictory.
I do not have any problem with a political party as a private organisation in itself, but I do not think that a party should be a legitimate political entity. I am not interested in Republicans or Democrats, I am interested in individuals with certain views. And no party can represent the views of all of its members property, unless that party consists of either one or zero members.
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