I don't find the natural tendency towards a two-party system hard to believe at all. In fact, I think that it is logically what must occur, depspite my dilsike of it.
Mikhayl sums it up admirably; in the event that we can't win, we vote for the candidate that makes us lose the least. Given the 'mainstream' nature fo the Democratic and Republican parties, this is hardly surprising.
As much as I hate the Electoral college I doubt its elimination would affect much.

The United States is trapped by the fact that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" and we are too far gone now to effect any real change before we endure catastrophic consequences at the level needed to trigger a revolution in public opinion and involvement.

Welcome to the beginning of the end, fellow Americans. Like so many before us, we have made the same mistakes as any great nation, just as whomever succeeds us as the world's leading nation will do the same.

Modern politics, public opinion, democracy (or representative democracy, supposedly, in our case), mean nothing in the face of history's unstoppable tide.
Why even bother?

Wow, that was dark was it not? I depressed myself:cry:

Obama's arrival match with the United states dusk yes it's a bit dark for me http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...s/sourire4.gif . The way the political system's made in the US make me think the persons arrive the persons who want to be elected arrive , the persons who want to be elected arrive then they have to face lobbies that they canno't avoid even if they loose their soul there . It makes me think of the "beast" of Nixon movie when Nixon says "i canno't control the beast but i manage to tame it" . the french system isn't much far away from America's what is different it's when a smaller party has an anormally high numbers of voices during the first round the bigger party which goes to the second round has to deal with that for example if the "green" party has a high number of votes it'll be much probable that we'll have a "green" environnement minister if the bigger party with the same political tendance than the "green" is elected