LINK: Jeff Jarvis defends the two-party system.
This reminds me, of course, of the debate I had with a number of my far-flung friends as the 2000 Florida mess was shaping up. The Greenies said Gore lost because he was insufficiently liberal, and there was no real difference between Gore and Bush, and no one really thought either would do a good job. The rest of us replied, of course, that Bush and Gore combined got about 100 million votes, whereas Nader had only a few percent of that: if people think Democrats and Republicans aren't doing a good job looking after their interests, they're certainly not engaging in any behavior that demonstrates that. I think that still stands as a pretty good argument for the two-party system.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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