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Originally Posted by Platapus
It has been a while since politicians worked for the country. Party before country is the state of our politics these days (and has been for many years). It is sad and makes me frustrated.
I wish I knew a solution to the party politics problem we have. Our fore fathers were right when they were concerned with political parties.  |
Here in my country once in a while the discussion flares up about introducing a two-party system like in the US, but this is exactly the reason why I'm opposed to that; there are only two sides. Reaching a compromise is much harder that way; since neither side wants to lose face, and that's what becomes increasingly important: every decision becomes a 'win' or 'lose' thing.
Multiple political parties partly takes this problem away. This doesn't mean this system doesn't have it's drawbacks (it usually takes three to four months between elections and the formation of a government coalition for example) but it does help governing parties to focus a little less on 'we win you lose' tactics.