RE: Obama called war criminal & hypocrite of the century in Irish Parlament
June 22, 2013 at 11:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2013 at 11:19 pm by Ryantology.)
(June 22, 2013 at 9:06 pm)Tiberius Wrote: There are more than two parties in the American electoral system. As soon as you guys realize this, you might get some decent politicians in office. They do exist; you just don't often find them in the Democratic and Republican parties.
More parties is no guarantee of superior politicians. Weimar Germany had 40 parties represented in the Reichstag throughout its existence, and we all know what sort of politician that situation produced.
I have problems with the Democratic Party, but I won't vote for a third party because weakening an insufficiently progressive party paves the way for a proudly regressive party to re-assert supremacy. Slow progress is better than going backwards. Though, it may not be far off when the Republican party fractures. We might see a three party system again when that happens, if it doesn't lose too much of its margins to either of its competitors. I'd rather wait for them to break first.