LINK: Sometimes I run across someone's opinions, not on politics, but on the structural features of democracy, and I'm a little confused. But not everyone has swallowed Downsian models and the concept of single-peaked preferences whole.
So, briefly, controversially, let me throw out the following thesis as if it's established fact: there will never be significant, long-lasting third parties in American politics. Never never never.
"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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