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Political Parties

Crazy Weavile

Crazy Weavile

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Yes, political parties. Good? Bad? The true road to enlightenment? A pox upon the land? Opinionate.

I despise political parties. Why? Very simple: they encourage you to blindly support candidates because they're a Democrat/Republican/Libertarian/Even-smaller-party-ian. This leads to people voting for people who, if they took the time to research all the candidates, they would in fact not vote for. I believe that the concept of a "party" that somehow embodies your beliefs is ridiculous, as no two people have the same beliefs.
 
I find them useful because I can conveninetly look into the 'ok' and 'retarded' categories to take my pick of the acceptable candidates.
 
It's useful since it organizes peoples beliefs. And also it's useful in historic text since if you hear a famous Political person's party you would know a bit of what they believed. And you can generally fit in some sort of party a little more than another. If not you can call yourself a moderate. Also some people like to say what they are.
 
if you had a bunch of people squabbling at each other with no form of organisation we would never get anywhere.

at least with parties you have some semblance of unity, even if you do have to compromise sometimes.
 
Crazy Weavile said:
Yes, political parties. Good? Bad? The true road to enlightenment? A pox upon the land? Opinionate.

I despise political parties. Why? Very simple: they encourage you to blindly support candidates because they're a Democrat/Republican/Libertarian/Even-smaller-party-ian. This leads to people voting for people who, if they took the time to research all the candidates, they would in fact not vote for. I believe that the concept of a "party" that somehow embodies your beliefs is ridiculous, as no two people have the same beliefs.
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Everyone has their own beliefs, but political parties come close enough to them to stop everyone in the country from trying to become president/prime minister/whoever else runs the country.
 
I think that two part systems are flawed, where the two parties are roughly equal in numbers. Nothing ever gets done because the minority party needs to convince a handful of senators / representatives to vote their side and they have it, especially in Congress. Now, if there were ten plus parties that had a good portion of representatives in Congress, there would have to be compromise and diplomacy between parties.

As far as parties in general, they work well in organizing and promoting people that share similar beliefs and choosing representatives for legislature that embody the beliefs of the group as a whole. Obviously there will be disagreement on certain issues for some individuals, but still.

A no party system might be better, for then representatives wouldn't be elected because they were the member of X Party running. They would have to be the strongest supporter of the views of the area they are representing.
 
Empoleon said:
I think that two part systems are flawed, where the two parties are roughly equal in numbers. Nothing ever gets done because the minority party needs to convince a handful of senators / representatives to vote their side and they have it, especially in Congress. Now, if there were ten plus parties that had a good portion of representatives in Congress, there would have to be compromise and diplomacy between parties.

As far as parties in general, they work well in organizing and promoting people that share similar beliefs and choosing representatives for legislature that embody the beliefs of the group as a whole. Obviously there will be disagreement on certain issues for some individuals, but still.

A no party system might be better, for then representatives wouldn't be elected because they were the member of X Party running. They would have to be the strongest supporter of the views of the area they are representing.
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The system is not premeditated; the system changes over time. It is impossible to stop the formation of political parties. And, ultimately, the electorate decides how many political parties there are in the legislature.
 
Altmer said:
lol what you do research and then you choose whatever party fits that the closest
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yes, i research candidates to actually find out who is best. odd, i know.
anyway i don't associate with a party; mainly because all republicans are screaming "die obama" and all democrats are screaming "die mccain" so I'm not putting myself in the middle of that argument. and if it's not that then it's some other argument.

i have a split view; some liberal and some conservative so i find it stupid to scratch out half of the ballot.
 
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