Commi-Ninja wrote:
It's a shame that third parties never end up in office.
At least a lot of ideas get adapted, which might be for the better because a third party with real weight would slice the election and make it an almost clean win (ie Progressive Party w/ Teddy).
So, I'm good with the greenbacks such getting their ideas in rather than the party as a whole.
there's nothing intrinsically better about third parties though; most of them are a semi-coherent collection of decent ideas and bad ideas and they usually are led by semi-competent/eccentric individuals.
"The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. 'Imperishable monuments' and 'immortal deeds,' death itself, and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been."
dilbertschalter wrote:
there's nothing intrinsically better about third parties though; most of them are a semi-coherent collection of decent ideas and bad ideas and they usually are led by semi-competent/eccentric individuals.
Basically this, having a 3-way race only splits it between two people and kills the basically similar movements.
