I'm Starting To Think... That In The Near/Soon Future... We're Gonna Have 4 Political Parties...

[WillyT]

1) Left/Progressive

2) Corporate Democrat

3) Corporate Republican

4) Fucking Insane

Time will tell.

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[Th1onein]

1. The last one made me laugh out loud.

It's the truth, though.

[Fumesucker]

2. Sadly there will still be only two parties even if there are four of them

It's rather like naval warfare, there are only two kinds of vessels, submarines and targets.

Well, in American politics there are only punchers and punchees.

With the punchees being hippies of course.

[littlewolf]

17. as a sprucan sailor I can tell you there are 2 types of subs

hot contacts and oil slicks

[Thor_MN]

19. There are only two types of people.

1.Those that can make inferences from incomplete data

[NuclearDem]

22. 1. People who don't get easily sidetracked and make sense

2. Peanut butter!

[Cleita]

3. It will still end up as two opposite sides unless we adopt a parliamentary

system. Our founding fathers didn't even think about parties in the system. We were just supposed to use the constitution to guide us and allow it to evolve accordingly.

[brooklynite]

4. How about "no"

Setting aside the notion that "Centrist" doesn't automatically mean "corporate", it's extremely unlikely. At best you'd have one center-left/lenter/right Party and two marginal fringe Parites, but I think our political structure really doesn't allow for it.

[randome]

5. And who will lead these new parties?

The GOP/Tea Party/Libertarian group still has no one with charisma or intelligence to lead. Only self-defeating demagogues like Ted Cruz.

We have Obama. And while he could definitely use a lot more help, he's pretty awesome compared to the other side.
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[Smarmie Doofus]

6. I see three, eventually.

1. Corporate DEM and GOP can easily amalgamate. Not much keeping them apart, near as I can tell. Nothing of consequence, anyway. Differences over race and sex and sexual orientation discrimination... all formerly in the way..... have fallen away. Money, power and hierarchy is what matters and they are of one mind here: these things must be preserved.

2. Then you have the legit DEM. ( That's most of us here, apparently.)

3. Finally the cultural conservative.... heretofore Republican.... right. Unlike Category 1.... some elements here can be educated... esp. as regards economic ( and maybe even foreign policy) issues.

[brooklynite]

16. Ah yes, we moderates are "illegitimate"

...because purifying the Republican Party of moderates has been such a success...

[woo me with science]

7. We have essentially one with power now

that will do its very best to kill any others that begin to show signs of life.

[WillyT]

8. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

[liberal_at_heart]

11. 100% correct.

[Agnosticsherbet]

9. We are in a winner take all system.

For there to be four working parties, you'd have to split the electorate more evenly. There are actually far more than four parties now. Just off the top of my head,The Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party, and Green Party exist in most of the 50 states. Neither the Green nor libertarian actually elect very many people and they don't even register in Presidential elections. There are a bunch of other parties in every state, that rarely, if ever, elect anyone. So I don't see how we can suddenly be a four party system.

[KG]

10. the dems and pooks collude to keep 3rd parties from access to the ballot box.

[morningfog]

12. I think that would be great. I really hope it happens.

[liberal_at_heart]

13. me too.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. I could live with that, actually.

Give us a little differentiation.

[boomersense]

15. Well spoken. But 3 and 4 will be forced to merge, and that is the

problem. We will know what is down the road after the budget fiasco. I was at this Halloween Party last night in Santa Monica. I got to talking to this guy named Kerr Smith, who was in this tv show called Dawson's Creek (something like that--I don't watch tv). He was a real nice guy and we talked about politics for about 45 minutes. He too said he thought there would be four parties but thought the Republican Party would be very much diminished, which I do too. We had to stop talking when the Zombies arrived from another bar. The guy was really smart and I enjoyed talking to him. Just another gorilla talking to a zombie.

[TxDemChem]

18. I've already got a few

Fucking Insaners at work. You are right about corporate dems...that group scares me.

[Vashta Nerada]

20. I love the idea of the Left/Progressive splitting from the Corporate Dems.

I would really support the Left/Progressives if they did that.

I think a better idea, however, would be taking special interest big money (PACs, Super PACs, etc.) out of politics.

[FarCenter]

21. The 2 party system is designed to allow a little over 1/8 of the public to control the government

First, only about half the electorate votes.

Second, if there is a block of about 26% of the voters, they can elect their candidate in the primary.

Third, the 26% can ally with another 25% of the voters to elect their candidate in the general.

Operationally, it is even less than 1/8 due to the way that party organizations control the nomination of party candidates for the primary election.