Originally Posted by
Grant H.
Look at society today. Seriously, get on Youtube, and watch some of the videos of people asking questions of general society. Yes, many people are ignorant. This has always been true.
Due to screwed up public education (This is a whole 'nother discussion, but yes. It's basically indoctrination), and the fact that we as a country are no longer governed as the founding fathers set up (When did this start? Go ahead and do some research and I think you'll find that it coincided with the creation of the two modern main parties), we are permanently hosed into a two party system (I disagree with you here, but that's okay. It's okay to disagree with someone else's opinion and still like them. :)). The percentage of our society that actually looks beyond the 2 parties is very low (See multiple links in my post above... notably the first several links), making it nearly impossible for a third party candidate to win. Then you have to factor in that there are usually several third party candidates, and now that low percentage is split across multiple candidates (This is true, but not a bad thing. Not everyone agrees on every topic - that would be insanely boring), so which ever main party they would have voted for loses the election, and the opposing main party says thanks to all the third party candidates for ensuring them the election. This is very circumstantial and have been proven and dis-proven almost as much as global warming. [LOL]
My thinking that there are only two parties that can win a Pres. election has nothing to do with them having power because I recognize that there are other parties, and I recognize the problem that they create. The other 80-90% of Americans that think there are two parties give them that power. This is absolutely true. The parties only have power because people give it to them. The parties are just non-profit organizations - they are not in any way a part of the Constitution. They were created several years after the US was officially formed for the same reasons they exist today: to give certain individuals more power in Washington. Unfortunately for us, the "individuals" that have the most influence (Hillary's delegate situation is a perfect example of this) are corporations that benefit from the legislation they buy through their preferred politicians. The good news for us is that the parties have undergone transformations historically and I think the GOP may be about to go the way of the Whigs.
