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Message   Mike Powell    ROB MCCART   Democrats Cracked?   July 26, 2025
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> That is why we in Canada have 3 main parties, a strong Right, a strong Left
> and a medium one, although the far left doesn't seem to get many of the
> votes. They have lots of 'great' ideas, but they are always expensive to
> implement and most people figure they will either not manage to get those
> things done or they will be paid for with higher taxes which may drive
> uber wealthy people and some businesses out of the country.

Unfortunately, our two main parties -- Republican and Democrat -- have
things under control in most states that make it very, very difficult for a
third party to get on the ballot and/or to have access to public funds
and/or have access to debates and other "public access" that they have.

You usually have to have a lot of money and be able to get X% of the vote
in the state before you can be considered for any of those things.  In
some/many cases, just getting on the ballot requires you have a petition
turned in, with X number of registered voters signing, before you can even
get on a ballot and start trying for X% of the vote.

Just as an example, some of the folks "on the ballot" for the last three
Presidential elections -- like Kanye West or RFK, Jr -- were only on the
ballot in some states.  In a bit of irony, RFK, Jr won his fight to get on
the Kentucky ballot just in time to drop out, but not with enough time to
get himself removed.

The Democrat and Republican politicians want to make sure our choices are
limited which, in turn, allows them to field candidates who very in their
level of "crapitude" and which causes some of their supporters to claim
that you need to vote for their candidate because they are "less evil than"
the other one -- note that only the delusional or completely dishonest will
try to use the "not at all evil" approach.

> What often works out best (IMHO) is when (frequently) we get a party
> in power who didn't have a majority (50%+) so they need help to
> vote most things through, which you don't get without giving someone
> something in return. That swings the policies a little more one way
> or the other than they would maybe prefer, but not radically so.

> Since the extra votes often come from the far Left party, they agree
> to vote with you if they can get a few things going through that often
> help out low income people and seniors, moderately good dental covereage
> being the last big one that came from one of those deals.

That'd be nice.  Since we are down to 2 choices here, IMHO, there needs to
be some safeguard in place that prevents one party -- either one! -- from
having control of the White House and both Congressional chambers.  Like
maybe some "at large Representatives" who only get to serve/vote in the
House if it is necessary to prevent full party control of all three.

They often get nothing done anyway but, when all three are controlled by
the same party, they often tend to get mostly only stupid, polarized things
done.


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