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Quote by: Technosoul  But think about it. What is a major political party?... it is a super lobby made up of an assortment of smaller lobby groups with special interest objectives. Or else I am just be a bit over-imaginative... but it seems to be the case nowadays anyway even if it was not always so.
An American version of lobby-globalization. ( I coined a new term). Meaning that lobbies that have things in common can support each others causes collectivly with one super lobby.. aka political party.
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Makes sense. I think any democracy will devolve into a sort of oligarchy becuase, logicaly, there can only be two significant political parties at any time. If there's three parties, people will vote for one of the two strongest not wanting to waste thier vote. It will never change becuase people do not want to waste thier votes and donor's don't want to waste thier money.
Political parties seem more like corporations. The thing that really gets me is that the people who work for them (full time employees, managers, ect) are almost required to be blind followers. Most politicians come from this pool of people. They suck thier way up to the top while they blindly follow the party line. When they get there they've lost all thier sense of reality.
Anyway, Ron Paul seems different. I hope he gives the establishement a good kick in the ass.