Quote Originally Posted by mkemse View Post
how many ACTIVE Poltical Parties does your country have, just curious??
1; the Capitalist Party. I'm an American.

Quote Originally Posted by Kuskovian
"democracy" is just limited voluntary tyranny by any other name.
When I die, it will be to no loss; Kuskovian makes me entirely redundant.

Quote Originally Posted by Ragoczy
The US is a Republic in order to limit pure democracy. The Founder's did this intentionally
This is true... its important to note though that all of the Founding Fathers were anti-party. Most famously, George Washington's advice: "Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally."

The Founding Fathers speeches and writings speak of a republican polity, deferring to state's rights in internal matters, without parties, wherein a vote was for a man not for a party. The Electoral College was created because the Founders believed that there would be numerous candidates, and that the Electoral College was necessary to winnow them down to just a dozen or so.

To be clear though, I'm not saying that the above or any other government would be preferable to the organization that currently takes 28% of my money and spends 22.5% of it on blowing up people who never fucked with me. I don't believe any compulsory statist authority is ethical or advisable.