Libertarian vs. Republican

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Amused

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Originally posted by: Lucky
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Lucky
Amused, I'm living in suburban chicago.

0roo0roo, I'm starting to think you are nefrodite reincarnated.

Really? Cool. How do you like Chicago? You know I'm just 2 hours south of there, right?



I thought you were way south of champaign, for some reason. I like chicago. :) I'm trying to find a newspaper job in IL, but it's proving hard.

Yeah, I'm in Champaign. My stores are a bit south of here, though. Good luck on the newspaper job, Clark Kent. ;)
 

Linflas

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Absent a major crisis of the level of The War Between the States which is the last time a major party died and a new party emerged we are stuck with the Democrats and the Republicans. Our system is set up in a way that does not enable multiple parties to form the coalitions you see in parlimentary systems. What the Libertarians need to do is pick the major party that is closest to their beliefs and begin to work to move it in their direction. At this time I would think that the Republican party is ripe for that type of influence since they are closer in many views than the Democrats are. This is what the conservative movement did when they took control of the Republican party in the 1970's and the same with liberals did with the Democrat party after the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
 

ElFenix

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the populist party was pretty major but they were absorbed by the democrats.

the parties in the us are far more broad in their views than those in other countries, and politicians here are far less beholden to the party for their seats than in most other countries, especially those with proportional representation systems.