(07-24-2018 02:57 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(07-24-2018 02:15 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(07-24-2018 01:05 PM)Crebman Wrote:  Honestly, I tend to believe the country would be better off with more than two parties, but don't believe we are going to see it in the foreseeable future.

The two current parties have sufficiently rigged the system to make any group leaving so devoid of money and clout to pose much of a threat.

Unless you want to adopt a parliamentary system, there will never be more than two viable parties except for historic hiccups.

You may be correct, but the two parties in power right now have set the system up and passed enough laws to make it extremely difficult for any other "players in the game".

Face it, it takes a ton of people and money to approach any relevance on a national scale.

The parliamentary system on its face seems to allow for more players, but I really don't see those governments as being any more effective than ours...........I guess the nature of any government is to be inefficient, ineffective and prone to graft....

With multiple parties and a balanced electorate, you are most subject to the extremists. Israel is a prime example and the outsized influence of every religious splinter party. Beyond 4 parties and you just get a mess-bureaucratic inertia or rule by tiny minorities.