Linux and Religion
JoeHill
joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 8 13:45:24 UTC 2007
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:05:29 -0500
Lennart Sorensen got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:17:20AM -0800, Mike Oliver wrote:
> > Why *US* political party? Y'all's parties
> > aren't like that?
>
> No they aren't. People in most countries are willing to change their
> government if it isn't doing a good job. Parties can go from major to
> not even official party status in a single election. The US seems to
> have gotten stuck with the idea that there are only two parties, and
> nothing else can ever have a chance. Of course as long as nobody thinks
> anything else has a chance they won't vote for anything else, which is
> just silly. A lot of countries have so many parties that you can't ever
> get a single party with a majority, they have to form coalitions of 5 or
> 6 parties to form a majority to govern. I believe the 2 party systems
> is one of the biggest flaws of the US.
Always makes me think of that line from the Blues Brothers, when they ask the
proprietor of the redneck roadhouse what kind of music they prefer:
"Oh, we got both kinds: Country *and* Western."
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