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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm French. You guys desperately need more political parties! The root cause of the deep divisions in the US is that each party vilifies the other, and it gets even more amplified and distorted according to which media you watch.

In countries with multiple parties, the hatred and stupidity are diluted, so to speak, and the voters can move slightly left or slightly red to the next party, with more fluidity. They're not trapped in the GOP because they could never bring themselves to vote for a Democrat, or vice versa. It's really helpful when a leader emerges that's completely nuts. You just slide over to the next party and make do if it's a little too liberal or a little too conservative. And then several parties need to coalesce to govern, which often leads to hilarity, but has never (yet!) led to fascism post-WWII.

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Me again. PP has a great point about political funding. In France they're so strict many politicians get dinged because the rules don't leave a lot of room for maneuvering. But they don't get dinged for enormous sums. It keeps politics relatively clean of big business influence - I say relatively, because it's not possible to avoid it entirely.
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