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Quigley got it right, We want two parties, and we want them to be more or less alike. This aberration with the Republicans purging their moderates and liberals is a very bad sign for America.Why do we want two similar parties? So we will have two more or less equally powerful sets of scoundrels and rascals watching each other for us.When one group gets too powerful or too scurrilous we can vote them out without disrupting our day-to-day politics.So that each group of scoundrels knows that if they totally ignore us they will be sent packing.Now, as to your concerns about minority views and sometimes having to go to a third party: Whichever major party fails at the polls will want to mend itself and be ready for the next election in two years. They will look over the third party platforms, and any ideas that voters were responding to will suddenly become a major issue for the losing party. Therefore, the good stuff bubbles up fairly quickly. Think of it this way: If there was a third party demanding that all toilets have rollover bars, and they got 11% of the popular vote in an election, you can bet that the major party that lost would soon discover that rollover bars for toilets was a great idea, that our Founding Fathers had been for rollover bars all along, and we also needed rollover bars for beds, strollers, and the Kardashians.
Quigley got it right, We want two parties, and we want them to be more or less alike. This aberration with the Republicans purging their moderates and liberals is a very bad sign for America.
Why do we want two similar parties?
Now, as to your concerns about minority views and sometimes having to go to a third party: Whichever major party fails at the polls will want to mend itself and be ready for the next election in two years. They will look over the third party platforms, and any ideas that voters were responding to will suddenly become a major issue for the losing party. Therefore, the good stuff bubbles up fairly quickly. Think of it this way: If there was a third party demanding that all toilets have rollover bars, and they got 11% of the popular vote in an election, you can bet that the major party that lost would soon discover that rollover bars for toilets was a great idea, that our Founding Fathers had been for rollover bars all along, and we also needed rollover bars for beds, strollers, and the Kardashians.
