The Washington Post: Chris Cillizza: Third Party Time?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Erik Schneider

The Washington Post: Chris Cillizza: Third Party Time?Source:The Washington Post talking about what a third political party would need to be successful in America.

“A new Gallup poll shows Americans are frustrated with both the Democratic and Republican parties — so is it time for a major third party? Chris Cillizza has the one number you need to know today.”

From The Washington Post

If we just decided as a country that both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party (which I’m still technically a member of) both sucked so much (to be frank) and was so incompetent, that you wouldn’t want them feeding your dog or cat, let alone running the United States Government, then I could support the concept of a multi-party (meaning more than 2) system in this country, conditionally.

If you are going to have a multiple party system in America, you really need to have runoffs as well. Otherwise, you would see U.S. representatives and senators, as well as the President of the United States, with just 30% of the vote. And that would also make the system more partisan, along with gerrymandering in the House, because you would would incumbents thinking that they only need 30-35% of the vote, perhaps not even that much, of the vote in order to win. With no incentive whatsoever to appeal to voters outside of their base.

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I use the American Liberal photo as the cover photo for this blog, because that’s exactly what I am. And no, not in the stereotypical, sort of pop culture sense of what an American Liberal is supposed to be. But someone who represents what American liberalism, as well as European liberalism, and perhaps the liberalism of the rest of the world outside of the United States. Liberals are people who believe in defense of liberal democracy, as well as the preservation of liberal democracy. And of course we also believe in liberal democracy with all the individual rights, and other liberal values that come from liberal democracy, the liberal democratic form of government, like equal opportunity, equal rights, equal justice, property rights, individual freedom and freedom of choice for everybody, as well as limited but responsible government, and fiscal responsibility
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