My Election Prediction, by Steven LaTulippe, 29 Sep 2006
"Describing the Republicans and the Democrats as political parties is somewhat of a misnomer, since it implies that they harbor some sort of transcendent philosophy that guides them in their policies and programs. ... The Republicans and Democrats are actually more like carrion birds, like two vultures fighting over the eyeball of a dead wildebeest."
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Tired of Two Parties?: Blame the centralization of the federal government, not the Constitution, by Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman, Washington Post, 17 Aug 2004
Related Topic: Reserved Powers
"... the truth is that the United States has not always been so dominated by two parties. ... Starting in the 1930s, however, minor parties stopped winning significant shares of votes for elections to Congress ... The decline in voting for minor parties has corresponded to the increasing power of the national government relative to the states."
Related Topic: Reserved Powers
"... the truth is that the United States has not always been so dominated by two parties. ... Starting in the 1930s, however, minor parties stopped winning significant shares of votes for elections to Congress ... The decline in voting for minor parties has corresponded to the increasing power of the national government relative to the states."
Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"... the political parties in nineteenth century America were the vitally important means by which ideology could dominate the narrow clash of special interest groups and seekers after government subsidies and privilege. The disappearance of ideological parties, starting in 1896, brought about the weak and fuzzy party politics we are familiar with today."
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"... the political parties in nineteenth century America were the vitally important means by which ideology could dominate the narrow clash of special interest groups and seekers after government subsidies and privilege. The disappearance of ideological parties, starting in 1896, brought about the weak and fuzzy party politics we are familiar with today."