| Ibskins, your point about too many parties (with the result that the tail ends up wagging the dog) is a good one, and Israel a good example.
But I'd say that the two-party system in the US is an undesirable opposite extreme.
Anyway, imagine if votes in the US presidential elections were split more or less evenly between 10 different candidtates. What would happen. The guy with 11% would win?
Suburbanite (BANNED? What for?) may be going a bit far when he says Nader is working for the GOP. Nader just has an overdose of puritanism. But the practical effect, in a close election, would be as if he were working for the GOP.
It's sad to such a useless and potentially destructive gesture.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |