America's new religions.

[eldritch48]

Against my better judgement, due to boredom at work, I started browsing through some internet forums over the last couple of weeks, and I've come to the conclusion that Left or Right, liberal or conservative, Americans are more religious than ever...they just have a new belief structure

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[goawayplease]

Yeah, I'm working on a documentary about out split down the middle...

http://www.splitdoc.com/

[eldritch48]

That looks really cool. What are you doing on it?

[goawayplease]

I'm animating maps and titles...

[otakubilly]

Amen...

[eldritch48]

We need a multi-party system. Americans somehow have to get away from their current obsession with black and white easy situations and solutions. There are more than two ways to skin any cat.

[otakubilly]

Heh... not to continue the religion analegy, but you're preaching to the choir on that one. Thing is, we're not really IN a truely in-the-rules two-party system. The system can handle more than just 2 parties, but since the 2 parties that are currently in power have convinced the people that this is how it has to be and have set things up to reinforce this view, most people don't seriously consider third parties when it comes time to vote, since it's so much easier to just vote for an elephant or donkey. I know many, many people who say they would vote for X party, but that you're just wasting your vote unless you vote for one of the big two, so people just keep voting that way, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we could get people to actually vote for who they REALLY think SHOULD win, not just choose between two bad choices, we might actually start to see a few changes and some new parties will start to gain power. After all, even if a party doesn't win, if they get a certain percentage of the votes, they actually start

[eldritch48]

Well, I'd agree with you except for the office of president...which, due to the electoral college, pretty much at this point self regulates into two parties. A percentage doesn't matter unless you win.

I want a parliment.

I briefly toyed with the idea of starting a political lobby/entity after the elections last year, but came to the conclusion that it would be an excellent way for me to lose friends ;)

I don't think we're going to get a significant change until we have to cope with a disaster that our current system can't manage...and I'm a little afraid of what that will be, because eventually, it *will* happen.