If we only have 2 political parties do we live in a democracy or a dilemma?

Answer 1

Denial.

Answer 2

We live in a democracy and the dilemma we are facing has nothing to do with the two political parties. It has to do with the moral decline in our society.

With the lack of a clear victory in the 2000 Presidential election the Democrats made it their mission to delegitimatize our President however they could. Most people today who complain that Bush wasn't the rightful winner in 2000 weren't even old enough to vote back then. They have just followed the lead of others who became obsessively anti-anything President Bush. I remember that election very well. I remember when Al Gore and the Democrats attempted to get the absentee ballots of our service men and women serving outside the country disqualified because it was believed that their votes would put Bush over the top in Florida, which they did. Everytime I hear how much the Democrats are concerned about our troops I remember back to that time when the Democrats believed that our troops votes should be thrown out. I will never understand how they could do that to the men and women that were defending our countries interests in numerous areas of the world.

Back to the dilemma... The dilemma today is due to the die-hards that won't let go what happened in 2000. Which led to 2004. Their main goal is to destroy anything that President Bush attempts to accomplish regardless of the cost. A CNN poll taken two days ago showed that a significant number of Liberals WANT President Bush's policies in Iraq to fail. By a 2/3rds margin they admitted that our failing in Iraq is preferrable. What does that mean? That means they want our troops to fail. The troops they claim to care about and want to support.

You tell me... how is that not a dilemma that can de directly linked to the Liberal left.

Answer 3

We live in a democracy. We have more than just 2 political parties.

Answer 4

The United States is traditionally bipartisan, this is because we are based on majority rule. If there were more than 2 dominant parties, the government would be based on pluralatal rule, i.e. it would take less than 50 percent of the people in agreement to make decisions. Additional parties would only create further red tape and the delima would greatly increase.

On the other hand if we only had one party, the people would have little effect on the government or factions would develop within the party and it would naturally split into two parties. (Federalists and anti-Federalists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-federalists)

If there were three or more parties, two parties would realize the advantage they would gain on the third by merging into one party and the parties would naturally merge into two parties. (Whigs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_%28United_States%29)

This is why Eugene Debs was never elected president despite his fervent efforts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs

Therefore like it there will always be exactly two dominant parties in the American pollitical system.

Answer 5

If the 2 political parties are not letting any other parties to participate in the democratic process, it's a dilemma.

Answer 6

I am afraid a dilema. Anything else aside from the two are not taken seriously and it is very difficult to get support from people. Most don't want to change the way they vote even though they are being sold out daily by both political parties as a whole.

Answer 7

You are incorrect. We have two large political parties and many small political parties. From time to time a small party will grow to be the third largest. And then it is absorbed into one of the other parties. and the large party then makes a significant change.

Answer 8

Well, as many conservatives like to remind us, the U.S. isn't a democracy, it's a Republic. And the reason they love to remind us of that is because they don't want to live in a Democracy.

Answer 9

Without freedom of choice... i would say a two party dance dilemma!

Answer 10

Support other parties to replace the existing two-party system.