Obama's first failed appointment

TheMercenary · 03-02-2009, 09:12 PM

We will never change the balance of power until we introduce a viable third party that can gain seats from the majority party and take away their overall majority in both houses.

sugarpop · 03-02-2009, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

We will never change the balance of power until we introduce a viable third party that can gain seats from the majority party and take away their overall majority in both houses.

HEAR, HEAR!

TGRR · 03-02-2009, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

We will never change the balance of power until we introduce a viable third party that can gain seats from the majority party and take away their overall majority in both houses.

Not gonna happen, for a variety of reasons, the first of which is the fact that the people that fund the two major parties will crush a third party like a bug.

Why pay for three, when you only have to pay for two?

Also, any 3rd party that actually gained any power would be corrupted instantly, because the problem isn't with the parties, it's with the people.

TheMercenary · 03-03-2009, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by TGRR

Not gonna happen, for a variety of reasons, the first of which is the fact that the people that fund the two major parties will crush a third party like a bug.

Why pay for three, when you only have to pay for two?

Also, any 3rd party that actually gained any power would be corrupted instantly, because the problem isn't with the parties, it's with the people.

Pure speculation on your part. You have little to back that up. It can be done if the people will it.

TGRR · 03-03-2009, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Pure speculation on your part.

Possibly. I am a very avid student of monkey-ass pack behavior, though.

Also, history is on my side:

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Duverger's law — After Maurice Duverger. Winner-take-all (or first-past-the-post) electoral systems tend to create a 2 party system, while proportional representation tends to create a multiple party system.

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

You have little to back that up. It can be done if the people will it.

Okay. So will it.

See what I mean?

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