OT: Two parties

Larry Blanchard · 2010-01-28T18:37:41+00:00

One of the letters to the editor in our newspaper yesterday brought up an interesting point.We currently have a 2 party system where the sole job of the Outs seems to be to oppose anything and everything that the Ins propose. Doesn't matter who's in and who's out.The letter pointed out that a multi-party system with 3 or more parties is the norm in most of Europe. There has to be cross-party cooperation because one party seldom has a majority by itself.He has a point. I can think of both advantages and disadvantages, but we sure have a problem now. I'd be interested in hearing opinions from all here.In order to have a viable 3rd party, it'd have to something between the other two. We could call it the Festivus party :-).