Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250 We are *SORELY* in need of third, fourth, and fifth Partys in this country to keep the Dems and Repubs in check! Despite frequently being attacked as a liberal or a democrat, I have a very strong anarchist bent that runs through my political views. On the other hand, I studied political and social movements, as well as group control in college, and most anarchist views fail to accept the reality of human strivings. People are a pack animal. They either want to be the Alpha, or they are perfectly happy being the beta. When two Alphas collide in a group, what ends up happening is the group has a tendency to splinter off into opposing cliques and do battle to put their Alpha in charge of everybody else. It is a classic case of my Alpha is bigger than your Alpha. The reason I quoted your statement, popeye1250, is when you look at the political system in India in the 1980s, they had a Congress made up of almost 653 political parties. None of these political parties had a majority, and they could seldom find enough common cause to vote anything meaningful into existence. What ended up happening was whoever was President of their country, or whatever they called the Alpha, had no balancing force to stop them from doing whatever they wanted to do. This actually relates somewhat to the last 6 years, where we had Braindead Man Walking in charge and a traumatized Congress happily giving away their power to this person. Anybody reading a newspaper, following financial reports, reading about the nuttiness in Iraq, pondering what happened to the Big Easy, etc., can easily see how dangerous it is to not have the checks and balances our governmental system was originally designed with. I am not sure having 2 or 4 or 6 or 23 or 653 political parties will really change things all that much. What I imagine would go a long way towards fixing things would be the groups learning how to work within the political system envisioned and put into place by our founding fathers. This involves people learning how to go to the mat and compromise to do the right thing, as opposed to the current nuttiness involving every Congressperson out for themselves and their earmarks and perks and interns. Andrew Jackson was correct when he said that allowing corporations to exist would create a soulless, self-absorbed, ruthless organism that existed for nothing but it's own survival. Now we have a situation where these same corporations control whoever holds power. Sinergy
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