Are you satisfied with the two party system as it stands today.

[Renew Deal]

Poll question: Are you satisfied with the two party system as it stands today.

[tk2kewl]

1. Other:

HELL NO!

[DKRC]

7. I voted No, but like your answer so much more!

:yourock:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. doesn't much matter

whether I like it. It's what we have, and it's not gonna change. In any winner-take-all system, there will be just two big parties, each one constantly shifting and changing to try to gain a small edge.

[Strawman]

3. No

I would prefer a parliamentary system with proportional representation or some reform in that direction. I also would like to see election day registration and compulsory voting. Absent those major reforms, a smaller reform like instant runoff voting would make thrid party choices more rational.

But until the rules of the game change, I can't justify voting third party in any race that is truly up for grabs. I do sometimes vote Green though. I voted Green for Congress in 2006 because I wasn't going to vote Republican and the Green seemed like a more competent sacrificial lamb with positions on the issues closer to my own than the equally hopeless Democratic candidate did.

[endarkenment]

4. No.

It is corrupt. Direct popular elections using instant runoff and hand counted paper ballots. Comprehensive campaign reform with public funding. Reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine.

[Flarney]

5. I think it would be fine with instant runoff ballots. n/t

[stellanoir]

6. In this land formerly lauded as the "land of the lively discussion"

could there possibly more dare I say two lousy points of view. . .?

We've digressed into the grating yawn fest of unimaginably intractable dualism, wherein some of the greatest intellectuals in all fields repeatedly come up with all sorts of sophisticated analysis only to be derided for being "reality based" and diminished with utterly blatant falsehoods. It's as though they are knocking their glorious crania against a brick wall of deceit.

It's a faux competition, too much corporate control with compromised elections and a complicitly sychophantic media, this hardly qualifies as representative leadership.

We've got to perhaps use both sides of our brains to acknowledge that there is far more that unites us than that which divides us.

As Pharoh pointed out yesterday. . .

"Einstein is reputed to have said something to the effect of. . .
our problems cannot be solved by the same consciousness that created them, thus a quantum leap in consciousness is required or we are all screwed.

There is an upcoming event of mass meditation upcoming on 7-17-07, check it out at www.firethegrid.com it could be a tipping point ; ) "

Have a nice day.

[Double T]

8. NO! Specially with the way the two existing political parties are conducting the business.......

of our nation. A strong third party centered around the needs and concerns of the people instead of the desires of the criminal corporations and the wall street traitors. Our current system of government has failed miserably and needs a total overhaul; the rebellion and the revolution can begin in the voting booth in November 2008.

[BringBigDogBack]

9. Hell no.

[Totally Committed]

10. NO.

NO way

NO how

NO, no, no, no, no.

TC

[abburdlen]

11. if I had my wish

a third of the seats in the House of Representatives would be filled not by elections but by a random drawing just like a jury.

But that's just as likely as changing the current 2 party system.