This country needs two strong, cohesive, viable parties. I do hope something of real substance happens soon, but I don't see how.
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Why just two? or why any at all ? What's wrong with candidates standing on their own merits without having to attach partisan labels to themselves? Or at the very least having a greater variety of viable parties that better represent regional and/or philosophical interests.
We've had the duopoly for a long time now and look at all the problems "
party before everything else" has wrought, not to mention the legions of mindless partisan lemmings they've created that can't tie their own shoes without some partisan mouthpiece telling them how to do it.
The political parties of the duopoly are just a mechanism for voters to abdicate their critical thinking responsibilities to and they've been a scourge on the Republic and the citizenry for far too long, it's high time they go the way of the dinosaur.
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However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." --
George Washington
