[Own Drummer]

Nope. Pat Buchanan is full of it, as usual. Multi-party representation leads to national paralysis. Read the history of France from 1900 - 1940 to see how bad it can get, or even recent history of Italy. Too many parties makes stable government impossible.

[MissAmericanPie]

Oh, I don't know, I kind of like the idea of a Free Republic Party myself.

[Noumenon]

I agree that multi-party has a historically bad record. So what's the alternative to two parties that are basically reform-proof and whose members and operatives consider themselves above and exempt from the laws they inflict upon us?

I suppose that we'll all get to find out, as the stage has been set for a civil war that'll make the previous one look like a Tupperware party. That's the elephant in the living room that most of us dare not discuss, much less prepare for.

[monday]

"Multi-party representation leads to national paralysis."

This may be true, but this is where we are headed unless the Republican party begins acting more conservative and less like the Democrats. Whats the point in having two parties if it becomes increasingly difficult to tell them apart?

[UnBlinkingEye]

Too many parties makes stable government impossible.

The theme of Communists, Nazis, dictators and Republicrats.