2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: DU is becoming an example of what is wrong with our political system [View all]DFW
(54,055 posts)That gave us the Weimarer Republik here in Germany, that gave us complete dysfunction, and that gave us Hitler.
Even now, here in Germany, none of the major parties gets much done because either some tiny party in a coalition holds the big one hostage and thwarts initiatives, or the two main parties from a "grand coalition" like in Germany now, and little gets done. Bureaucrats rule because no one stops them when they go overboard.
A two party system gets more done, flawed as our system is. No way in the world the multiparty German parliamentary system would accomplished a tenth of what Obama did to raise itself out of the kind of crisis Dick Cheney (dba GW Bush) left us. They'd still be arguing about the first steps, trying to lick the boots of tiny coalition partners so they don't have tantrums and leave the coalition altogether.