Political Nevada

Is the Two-Party System relevant today?

The United States is proud to tell the world that we have a two-party system. The two-party system has worked in this country since the founding in 1776, but it may be time to “tweek” the system for our future welfare.

There are so many members in both parties that have political philosophies which are indistinguisable from their political opponents that it has become impossible to tell which political party they represent; those are times that our two-party system acts more like a one-party system. Then there are times when a small faction within a party pushes the party into a direction which goes counter to that party’s true phiosophy. Because of the conflicting directions which our two-party system seems to be going it may be time to change into something more obvious.

Currently, this country is seeing splinter groups that have formed within the structures of our two-partys where these groups are causing identity crises for both political parties. The Republican party seems to be undergoing the worst splintering of either party due to some very small, but very vocal elements more interested in pushing their personal agenda than in pushing an agenda for the benefit of the entire political party. The Democrates have their own splinter groups, which are almost as pushy, for their own agendas, as are their counter-parts.

Since there seems to be so many small groups fighting to be noticed within a party, it might benefit all of us if we put aside our two-party system and promote the formations of multiple parties; therefore, by expanding our two-party system into a multiparty system, people with the same beliefs would be able to unite under their true colors.

In many other countries, there are multiple political parties, each with their own agenda, making it more obvious to the voter what that particular party’s total agenda will be if they get into power. These agendas might differ only in one or two issues, but those issues may be more important to their members than the rest of the party’s issues; other groups find other issues more important, so other parties form to push their own, more important issues. As this process grows and grows more groups are formed into political parties.To create a government, coalitions have to be formed by these many diverse groups, but since many of these groups have very similiar agendas (with one or two differences) that can be worked out as needed they are able to create a coalition of parties to work coopertively to accomplish their goals with the creation of a government of multiple parties.

Having multiple parties within a government means that if the politicians want to be re-elected and stay in power, they will have to work with other politicians to create a coalition of those various parties. The only way that anything will be accomplished will be if those elected try and work together as a team.
The fact that many European governments have fallen because of a lack of coopration between the many political parties is not something that should be overlooked, but maybe that is what true Democracy is; that the more political parties involved in a government the more chance that the common citizen will be heard, which is as it should be in the real world of politics.

Currently our simple two-party government is stagnating because there is absolutly no cooperation between them. Those in power seem to feel that they can delay votes and laws until the next election when they might have a larger percentage of the total membership(house or senate) to force their will.

If they had to deal with multiple political groups, maybe they wouldn’t waste so much time, maybe they would get more work done; maybe it’s about time that we have more than our sacred two-party system?