20th July 2015, 7:38 PM
It's nice to see you acknowledge the democrat's failure as a party here. Everything you said is true. The democrats exist entirely to stem the tide of idiocy coming from the right. It seems to be their sole goal in life at this point, and it would sure be nice to see some alternatives.
I'd love to see a variety of parties that actually stand a chance against these two massive ones at some point. I'm not sure what it'd take, especially since any attempt for an alternative "further left" party to actually get off the ground is immediately squashed with "but it'll split the vote and the crazies will WIN" fears, and those fears always win, even if the fear actually is legitimate, it's the fear itself that's holding back the creation of new parties.
I'd love to see a variety of parties that actually stand a chance against these two massive ones at some point. I'm not sure what it'd take, especially since any attempt for an alternative "further left" party to actually get off the ground is immediately squashed with "but it'll split the vote and the crazies will WIN" fears, and those fears always win, even if the fear actually is legitimate, it's the fear itself that's holding back the creation of new parties.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)