By this I mean there is an awful lot of issues which could be solved if 2 of the 3 partys could agree and over ride the 3rd !!!!!!
2007-05-10 15:37:30 · 13 answers · asked by 1wiseguy 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
From the look of things, we need to wait a long time before a third party could actually compete with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
2007-05-10 15:40:37 · answer #1 · answered by RICARDVS 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A three party system is good for the United States in order to stop the bickering Republicans and Democrats for dominating the American politics.
2007-05-10 15:41:58 · answer #2 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God I here this tripe all the time, well if you can create a party with a platform a large percentage of Americans can agree on, AND if you can find VIABLE candidates, and get FINANCED because your platform is that strong well then let's go, but to date show me ONE third party that has posed a genuine majority grabbing platform and I'll kiss your backside, what you think it's ALWAYS been this way? Read history we started with a butt load of parties and look where we are at now, more power to ya but it ain't gonna happen
2007-05-10 16:07:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ds & Rs would essentially have to "permit" the forming of a third party and they will never do that.
Also, bear in mind that Hitler rose to power in multi-party Germany when he was able to secure the support of 3rd and 4th parties for his Nazi Party control of the German government.
It could also be argued that the GOP already is two merged parties: the Fiscal Conservatives and the Christian Conservatives.
2007-05-10 15:41:15 · answer #4 · answered by BOOM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What makes you think 3 parties would bicker any less than 2?
2007-05-10 15:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, that would just make it worse. We need to go to a selection process where anyone who wants to be pres is disqualified, and the pres is chosen by delegates selected by small groups of people who know and trust thier delegate who then search out the best man for the job , the same for the senate and house and the supremes.
2007-05-10 15:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by mr.phattphatt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Voting for third party candidates only improves the odds of the candidate you like least will win. That has been the history of virtually all third party candidates in major elections.
2007-05-10 15:44:08 · answer #7 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my reading of history suggests...third party's tend to group up with concern for a specific issue or perspective. with time that issue or perspective becomes co-opted or embraced by one or both of the other party's. with the purpose of said party diminished, it fades away.
my take on the current political environment, suggests the extreme right and left are driving their agendas and thus the argument, that is contemporary political conversation. both sides will need to tone down their rhetoric prior to 2008; but, the likely hood of a defined third party to do that for them is not on the map. in addition, there are currently numerous other parties...libertarian, green, peace and freedom, etc., that would love more exposure on the political landscape. it is up to the devotees of those party's to make that occur.
2007-05-10 16:01:19 · answer #8 · answered by jonny y 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You want a 3 party sytem so we can go to a 2 party system?
I'll have to check back on this question.
2007-05-10 15:41:40 · answer #9 · answered by thewindywest 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. We're actually a multi-party system as it is. The R's get the fiscal (most of the time) conservatives, capitalists, and the social conservatives whereas the the D's get the fiscal liberals, socialists, and social liberals.
2007-05-10 15:46:58 · answer #10 · answered by ML 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋