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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Three Party System (part 3 of many)
• Each year the majority has grown larger and the minority has shrunk. Quality of debate has decreased because of this super party.
o Three Party System would ensure better debate.
Remember that youth and government does not have to look like the corrupt and dysfunctional government of PA. We can be a three party system that leads to great bills and even better debate.
Adding a third party would make the two parties on each side fighting for the more moderate party.
Beta – Liberal
Gamma – Moderate
Alpha – Conservative
Side Note: I want delegates to fill out a political questioner so that their answer determine their party not just their arbitrary choice at the last minute.
• New Debate Format
o Each party gets 3 min.
o Therefore 1 round takes 9 min instead of 8. So really the time to get through bills really does not change much.
o Second round can ensue if the majority leader so wishes.
Total time is only increased by a short time. However, more engaging debate is guaranteed and more people get a chance to talk.
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ReplyDeleteLetter to editor in Tribune Review, April 30, 2012
I have one point about the tea party people I know. Some liked Bill Clinton -- they are the people who call President Obama a socialist. And of course I know many more who hate Clinton yet never referred to him as a socialist, but of course Obama is a socialist in their eyes.
And when you press them to define "socialist," they can't. I don't think they ever looked up the term. Is Mitt Romney a socialist? Is Rick Santorum or Paul Ryan a fascist? I know what the words mean. And none of them apply to any of these folks.
This is really sad for the nation.
The GOP plans to make Obama a one-term president at any cost, it seems. Even if we get pushed into another recession or maybe a depression, that's fine for them. I guess they figure they could dig us out of any hole. Well, any Republican who takes Obama's job will have 18 months to fix the economy, then will be on his or her way out!
I just wish we had a good-sized third party in Congress. Not third-party presidential candidates. I'm talking third-party congressmen.
If we had a big group of independent moderates (neither Democrat nor Republican), then they could act as a bridge between the big parties and maybe then we actually could get some work done rather than remain engaged in constant political warfare designed to merely win an election or weaken opponents.
We need to get some work done in this country!
Nick Balandiat
Baldwin Borough
The False Paradigm
ReplyDeleteSubmitted by dducks on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 09:46. Permalink
"We "know" that there are two opposing ideologies, Left and Right."
RRReeaally?
Read Carroll Quiggley, Tradegy and Hope - page 1247
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."