[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

No, what keeps third parties down is the power exerted by the existing parties. Popularity has nothing to do with it. Brainwashing plays a big part though, and it seems to be working.

Oh really? Can you name a third party that should have been viable that was kept down by the existing parties? Maybe what you call brainwashing sounds more like a case of sour grapes.

Wait a minute. You just finished saying that complaining about things is what keeps them from getting out of hand, but in this sentence you say that the battle not being over is the problem? You want the abortion battle to be over? What if it ends up being over, but not in your favor? You reserve the right to complain, but only for yourself?

Actually I don't really care which way the abortion battle goes as long as i'm not asked to pay for them. I was thinking more along the lines of casino referendums for example being soundly and repeatedly rejected by the voters yet bills legalizing them continue to arise every year. As for reserving the right to complain only for myself that is ridiculous. I neither promote or prevent anyone from complaining.

Funny, the people who founded this country didn't want parties at all. Parties come from factions, and factions are always trouble.

That may be true about factions Steve but the founders had no problem forming them in spite of what they may have said. Heck the Continental Congress itself was considered a faction, a rebellious faction, by the royal government.