Quote Originally Posted by Ranger View Post
However, I still support our two party system because, as our forefathers knew, having more parties becomes problematic -
You believe the founding fathers established a two party system? The founders were against the idea of parties.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.


George Washington's farewell address.

People wonder why the animosity continues to grow, you need only read these very forums to see the hatred. It's becoming difficult to be a moderate when both sides scream that the other is willfully damaging the country. When you reach the point in political discourse that you aren't willing to believe the other side has what they believe is the best interests of the country in mind, when you accuse them of being traitors, then rational discourse has ended.

The belligerence between the parties has long since reached the point of hurting the US.

Conference call is over, have a good day.

H.