[WS:] Differences in the voting system - first past the post (US) vs. proportional representation (Germany and rest of continental Europe.) First past the post system makes it certain that no "third party" i.e. a party other than Dems and Repugs has a chance at the polls in all but a few really odd places, like Berkeley or Cambridge.
Wojtek
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Sorry to sound provocative, but what is to stop the U.S. Greens from making a
> similar development to the German Greens?
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> i.e. Wars (Yugoslavia + Afghanistan), demontage of the welfare state,
> neo-liberal policies, etc.
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> A friend of mine in the States says that the U.S. Greens even maintain fraternal
> relations with their awful, awful German counterparts, cooperation with the
> Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, etc.
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> So it's not even the case that the U.S. Greens have as a model the German Greens
> of 30 years ago; rather, they regard them even *today* as a model to emulate!
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> So, again, why?
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> You can have wars and neo-liberalism with Democrats and Republicans. An extra
> political party is surplus to requirements.
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