Frank, your failure is your belief that there are only 2 sides and they are in direct opposition. I don't fear one party domination because the real problem is we have two party domination now, a duopoly—a single ruling class represented by two wings of the same bird or prey. What they both equally fear is any real opposition if enough people woke up.
RayR wrote:
True, I stated my point as if there are only two sides, primarily because those are the camps that continually get elected.
I would like to see that change and do listen...hey, when you first dropped in here I asked you to stay for your different point of view. Turns out I don't agree often, but that doesn't ever make me turn off the volume.
But where I have failed if in fact I have failed at all, is in reaching you with the point that America functions best when it changes back and forth every so often. Despite the common refrain that the two parties are one and the same, they really aren't. It's just too easy to say. Certainly they share the power greed disease, but policies differ greatly.
I also have taken to saying Liberal and Conservative (with extremes and moderates in each) rather than Democrat and Republican, as neither "Party" truly represents individuals so well any more and dropping those monikers may eliminate chances of the negative Party Over Country.
Your lack of fear of one party domination would yield toxic levels of what you claim duopoly is creating without the opportunity to reset our GPS before we wade too far down the wrong road. At least now we get the opportunity every 4 years and even in between with other offices. Perfection can and should never exist, and it can not in any event.
At a minimum, two parties are needed, I'm hoping to live long enough to experience at least 3 viable parties
Backing a one party system that seems perfect to you would be a short sighted method to installing a feel good dictatorship.
There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator.
