Should the USA someway split up political parties?

Question

The political parties today just take opposite sides from eachother and don't really care about what they should support. They just care about political gain and getting re-elected. This causes Americans to have to decide to support one party or something totally opposite.

I think it would be good to force parties with more than 25% control of congress to split up. This would make it so parties will disagree on some issues and agree on some issues. Then when we are electing the president we would only allow the election of the two most populous parties in each house.

Answer 1

Why not just introduce new major parties? Anything saying that a political party should split wouldn't get through congress or even written as a bill.

Answer 2

Yes. One way to accomplish this would be to change the way elections are carried out. Instead of winner-take all election, some positions - most practically, congressional representative - could be proportional. That is, if you run for congress in a state that has, say, 12 representatives, then, if you're one of the top 12 vote-getters that election, you're in. Voters wouldn't have to chose A or B, they'd be able to choose the candidate they most agree with.

Something like the presidency, OTOH, would still have to be winner-take all. But, with Congress, at least, open to more points of view, the flaws of the de-facto two-party system could be softened a bit.

(Of course, Congress would become a madhouse like the Italian legislature, that boasts communists and porn stars among other things, but, hey, it'd be entertaining)

Answer 3

Political parties will attract people that agree with their views and thinking people will be repelled away from parties that have views they don't agree with. There is no need for some way to split up political parties. We do need a stronger third party to provide a more realistic view of the way the world works. The current parties are too polarized.

Answer 4

By mandating how congress is split up, you take the true power away from the citizens. The only way to show the current ranks of people in power is to vote a 3rd party. This solution is improbable because 3rd party canidates never get enough votes, but it has to work this only way to allow the citizens to have the power.

Answer 5

How about this... for 2008, tell ALL of congress and the Senate that they are *out*. Thank you very much for your service, but it is time for some new blood, new faces, new opinions. All states will elect all new Representatives and Senators. Put the announcement out in Nov of this year, giving everyone exactly one year to convince their states why they should be in.

Answer 6

Honestly, I don't think thats the problem. Tell me, have you ever seen the Libertarian party get invited to the televised presidential debates? How about the Greens? Socialist? Constitution?

Why does the U.S. Media only present 2 choices?

Answer 7

That sounds complicated. I think it is good that there are opposite view points. Also, I feel that there are different views in each family, let alone in each party.

Lets face it1 More people vote for American Idol, than they do for the president!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

If the parties split it will be the choice of party members.

Answer 10

I honestly can't fathom how America could do more than the big 2--it's just too inconceivable of an undertaking.