Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
And yet, you'd think the American people would take this as an opportunity to finally vote for a 3rd party candidate (for me, preferrably libertarian), and actually open up the political process! But they haven't; instead I watched the Obama DNC speech a couple nights ago and saw alomst every woman there choking back tears.
Meanwhile McCain thinks the economy is in tip-top shape, that 'ol George got it all right, and amazingly BOTH candidates won't discuss the constitutional liberties stripped away by the Bush administration.


I have a despondant feeling that if a 3rd party can't even increase it's votes in times like these, America will be stuck in the system of the 2-headed dragon forever.
The problem with the 2 party system isn't necessarily the system itself, but rather that they are allowed to balloon to enormous sizes with virtually unlimited funds.

Limit the party size and give each party a budget they must abide by and I guarantee we would see a lot more get done, in addition to this younger parties with new ideas would be able to participate much more easily than before, allowing for their voices to be heard much more clearly than before. Give all parties equal seats and then no one has 'power'. They become representatives instead as our forefathers intended it.

The problem is that this would never happen. It would have to be voted on and we all know that no politicians are going to open up a door that may give opportunity for them to lose their power.. SIGH!!!