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Feb. 20th, 2004 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheThe two-party system isn't perfect. God knows it's not perfect. But it's what we've got. We've had it for a long time.
Tonight, I'm thinking of American politics as a more or less continuous line of twin parties (with the few exceptions here and there, a braid). Has there always been two Americas? The parties evolve as the times do. They must, because we do.
The Democratic and Republican parties are shells. The American populace is outgrowing them. We'll soon break through these shells. We'll probably still have a twin system, but the parties might reflect their constituents a bit more accurately.
No one overthrew the Whigs.
Tonight, I'm thinking of American politics as a more or less continuous line of twin parties (with the few exceptions here and there, a braid). Has there always been two Americas? The parties evolve as the times do. They must, because we do.
The Democratic and Republican parties are shells. The American populace is outgrowing them. We'll soon break through these shells. We'll probably still have a twin system, but the parties might reflect their constituents a bit more accurately.
No one overthrew the Whigs.