How many major political parties would be ideal in the United States?

[Poiuyt]

Everyone talks about having a third party, but I believe that we should have four major parties - liberal Democratic, moderate Democratic, moderate Republican (or traditional conservative), and Bush's American Taliban party.

We should also scrap the Electoral College in favor of some variation of Instant Runoff Voting. This would be important with four parties to insure that someone gets a majority of the votes.

[elepet]

1. that sounds about right

[Speck Tater]

2. What about the Libertarians?

Don't want to leave them out.

[bowens43]

5. Yes we do.

[Poiuyt]

8. I don't consider the Libertarians to be a major party

[MsAnthropy]

3. Well 3 didn't work in Minnesota with Jesse Ventura

He couldn't get either side to do what he wanted. Four might actually work, but the more parties, the smaller the group is that ends up deciding the winner.

[bowens43]

4. More then one.........

[ArkDem]

6. 7

[leftofthedial]

7. well, none, actually, would be ideal

but I'd go for:

the party of jesus god and the end times (for the religiously insane)
the capital tories (for the would-be aristocrats and imperialists)
the corporate tories (for the "moderate" repukes and the DLC crowd)
labor (for workers and workers' rights and progressive foreign and economic policies)
green (for the environment and progressive social agenda)


five.