DescentBB

With the democratic party in decline and Move On.Org making noise like it may want to wrest control of the party from the people who now control it:


"Washington (AP) - Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the "professional election losers" who run the Democratic Party: "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back."

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1204/193323.html

Does anyone here see a schism forming that may lead to a splintering of the party in to two distinct parties?
Will's wish for a three party system may be closer than he ever realised.

No. Why? Because then we couldn't defeat the republicans ever.

I will give you, the dems are significantly less united then the reps. But we still can't form two and stay compeditive.

The only way would be to form a true "moderate" party that also stole some R's.

but goober, could not the split partys unite together as a "coalition" in those times, to give the numbers to rival a much larger party (when needed)?*

a party spliting up into more specialised seperate partys would give people people more of a multilateral choice, being able to choose a party that is more closely aligned with their beliefs. it could inspire democratic empowerment.

*this is what they do down here in OZ.

heheheh...good luck on educating them about coalition government roid. almost no one in america knows what that is.

Gooberman wrote: The only way would be to form a true "moderate" party that also stole some R's.

I suspect that a more moderate democratic party that was strong on defense, less pink and led by the likes of Joe Lieberman, would steal some of the republican voters who may be more pro choice and less religiously orientated.

a party like that could break away from the republican party even.

on the topic of coalition government. i can't visualise how it would work in usa's whitehouse, which seems to work more as an elected dictatorship (no offence).

A centrist party consisting of shards of the democratic and republican parties would do nothing but good for this country, as we could maybe start moving away from the radical extremism present in both parties leadership and move towards something that might actually get things done.

The Great Divide huh?
Well here is my opinion of it. A very good song done by Point of Grace

Fus

Roid: the White House (executive branch) is more along the lines of an "elected dictatorship", but Congress isn't. The Executive would still remain predominantly one party while the Legislative would go from two to three parties.