Reply #24: The winner takes all goes back to the US Constitition of 1789

[nadinbrzezinski]

and I noticed that you have not even adressed that little point.

In US Politics a 7& is seen as an overwhelming victory, that is political science, and yes a mandate.

Now to compare the way the Democrats to the Republicans, you are making a very serious mistake. If the Democrats, with the mandate, behaved as the republicans we would have single payer health care, not this watered down bill, and be out of Afghanistan (That is the logic of empire so it don't matter what party controls what)

Now what you are correct in is the level of rancor and partisanship... which we have seen in the past and once led to a hot shooting civil war.

But the winner takes all, we would have to REWRITE the US Constitution or amend it. Good luck on either of them. And by the way, that is one of the weaknesses in it... and yes the US might benefit from a parliamentary system, with proportional representation, but that one also has it's major problems.