One Party State?

[ilpostino]

With a growing number of Rightwingers now boldly stating the goal of achieving a one-party state (sorta like Cuba), I'm wondering how many here have had their brains so badly fried by the toxic political environment, that you, too, wish the Republicans would be vanquished once and for all and Democrat hegemony would rule from sea to shining sea? Let's have a show of hands.

[GOPBasher]

1. No I don't wish that.

But I do wish that the Republicans were much more reasonable, not fanatically right wing. Or maybe I'd like it if the two major parties were the Dems and the Greens. But no, I definately would NOT like to see a one-party system in any way.

[patdem]

2. Honey....the Democratic party is SO diverse...if the repugs went away

today the Democratic party would become a 2 party system...so get over that fantasy!

[mitchtv]

3. their own private Idaho

.

[JackSwift]

4. I wouldn't want a one party country of

Democrats any more than a one party country of Republicans. (Well, not much more.) A plurality winner system results in a two party/faction system rather than mulitple parties as in a parlimentary system. The parties act as a check and balance on each other, which is a good thing. I don't want a Falwell/Robertson religion establihsed, nor a bigocracy, nor a corpocracy (which we pretty much have), and Democrats are a good check on those tendencies. But I certainly don't want a society that is entirely against corporations either: concentrating capital is a good thing for productivity purposes. It's enough that I live in a state where Democrats have a 10 point voter registration advantage.

[GOPBasher]

6. What state is that?

If you don't mind me asking, what state is it that Dems have a 10 point voter registration advantage?

[0rganism]

5. I'd prefer a 1000-party state with instant runoff voting

but that's just my own neurosis.

[Resistance Is Futile]

7. Rethugs have no value

The Rethuglican party has ceased to have any redeeming qualities. It's complete elimination as a political force would be a boon for both America and humanity as a whole, for much the same reason that the elimination of Nazi party was a boon for both Germany and the world.

Ideally, the US should adopt some form of proportional representation system where it is possible to have more than two viable parties.

[zorkpolitics]

8. One party state not unussual

Since 1952 the Democrasts have been the "One Party State" 25% of the time when they controlled both Houses of Congress and the Presidency, and the Republic survived:
60-80 Kennedy/Johnson
76-80 Carter
92-94 Clinton

[Northwind]

9. I do not wish that at all

I DO desire to see the GOP and conservative philosophy utterly eradicated, but what I would like to see by the end of my lifeitme is the Democratic party, with its current platform, being considered the right wing, something like the Greens being considered centrist, and a fully socialist party making up the left. That and numerous other small inerest parties strung about in there as well. I want to see the entire political landscae shift left so that our definition of liberal and conservative fundamentally change.