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Hammer Kirby
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Jun 2 2007, 02:52:01 PM
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Truth: The political party system is far from being a free and open capitalist market in which parties succeed or fail based on merit. The government uses measures to create and maintain a duopoly where the Republicans and Democrats are the only two political parties that matter and the only two that ever have any chance at winning anything. Those two parties are the most popular not because they have the best ideas, but because they are, in effect, receiving the equivalent of an affirmative action program. They, unlike third parties, receive public funding (a downright criminal use of taxpayer dollars), are allowed to participate in debates (all third parties are effectively banned from debates), and are a bunch of dishonest bastards with no real principle or agenda other than winning and holding power (there's a reason why the Libertarians, not the Democrats or Republicans, are the "Party of Principle"). In order to receive public funding or participate in debates, you need to receive a significant minority of votes, but without either of those tools (actually only one of them in the Libertarians' case - they turn down public funding out of principle), it's near impossible to receive the amount of publicity and exposure necessary to earn an impressive quantity of votes. Why is the system this way? Because the Republicans and Democrats are the ones in Congress and they're making these rules to protect their own asses, of course! A truly competitive election system would be their worst nightmare.
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