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current systems FOR your LIFE and lifestyle know as surely as you breathe that when the systems fail you and your family will be in grave danger and your lives may hang in the balance It is only the last 70 years that famine and hardships have not been a way of life for 90 percent of the world population

The Price Of Political Paralysis - Decline of the Empire

Dave Cohen

ue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:20 GM

Each analysis assumes, as it must, that strong, bipartisan political policies will be defined & implemented in the future. None of the people offering these prescriptions are willing to admit that our . political system. is irrevocably broken. ... This democratic base is on the upscale, believes in technological advance through . alternative. energy and smart urban living, energy conservation, and is more liberal to agnostic and less prowar/expansio​nist. ...

Is there any invisible force at play in ensuring that most democratic systems have exactly TWO large parties?
Q. I've often wondered about this. It is true for all democratic set-ups in the world, at least as of now. Two major political parties dominate something like 70-80% of vote share and usually alternate to form power. The chances of a third front, when it rises suddenly is diminshed. France had a leader called Le Pen who had his peak of success in 2004 and then started "diminishing" again. US: Democrat and Republican UK: Labour and Conservative Japan: Liberal Democratic and Democratic Party What is the difference between these "democracies" (which are more of two opposing clouts) and a single-party dominated electorate such as China and Russia. What are the specific advantages to a citizen in say, Japan over a citizen in Russia. The former… [cont.]
Asked by Phoenix - Thu Aug 2 13:29:09 2007 - - 13 Answers - 0 Comments

A. How the government is elected decides how many parties will have power. For example, the US and the UK are pretty similiar in their government structure, so that's how you get those two parties in power. More specifically, the fact that you have to get a majority of the votes to win, over 50%, it automatically makes it so there can only be two viable candidates. The electoral system is also set up in a way that reinforces this: you have to get 270 electoral votes out of the 538, which is more than 50%, once again. If there were to be more than two viable parties, no one could win the initial race, and then there would have to be a run off election to vote between the two top vote getters. It doesn't have to be this way in a democracy by… [cont.]
Answered by Stephanie - Thu Aug 2 13:54:26 2007