Henry Haphorn
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.08.01 17:44:00 -
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Hell no! I have observed a lot of political bickering in the United States during the past 10-15 years of my life. So far, a party system is a terrible idea. Usually it's because a party system will typically result in one or two parties (out of God knows how many party we start off with) gaining a monopoly-like strangle hold on the system and then using this to their advantage. In real like, the US two-party strangle hold (Liberals and Conservatives) is pretty much similar to the 0.0 alliances (Northern Coalition and Drone Region Federation). Both sides will do whatever they can to ensure no one takes their influence and both sides will do everything they can so that the middle (Independents) will never have any position.
It is for this reason that the First President of the United States (under the US Constitution) George Washington opposed the very idea of a political party system.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests." - George Washington, 1796 Farewell Address
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