Re: On current events... (Hot button topic - Kavanaugh Confirmations)
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:10 pm
Of course, the USA is not a parliamentary democracy. It was a revolutionary democratic republic in the 18th century, but parliamentary democracy is a newer system that has some advantages over the US model.
Voting for third parties generally doesn't work well in the US, though the major parties have coopted third-party programs in the past. And the major parties have changed identity and stolen each other's acts from time to time.
Party politics in the US have often been sordid, shortsighted, and dismissive of the Constitution, but they're hard to avoid. Washington warned against party politics altogether, but still ended up a de facto founder of the Federalists.
Voting for third parties generally doesn't work well in the US, though the major parties have coopted third-party programs in the past. And the major parties have changed identity and stolen each other's acts from time to time.
Party politics in the US have often been sordid, shortsighted, and dismissive of the Constitution, but they're hard to avoid. Washington warned against party politics altogether, but still ended up a de facto founder of the Federalists.