One word that will guarantee we will only have 2 parties in power, abortion. The Republicans are morally bankrupt and there can be no argument that they do not stand for what they believe in and their supporters go along with the lies for illogical reasons. This will never change because even loons like Glenn Beck are starting to say, “Party doesn’t matter! We have to throw the bums out!” The elections will come and all the Republicans will have to say is “abortion” and the sheep will return home and people like BK will eat the same shit. It’s funny and not that sad.
Death nail?
Death nail?
Common expression … similar in meaning to “knell in the coffin”
Thank you for saying that for me…
“Germans?”
“Forget it he’s rolling.”
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No, it’s plurality elections, meaning winner takes all in our election system. Given that, there is room for the winner and the opposition, nothing else.
If our leaders were elected based on a proportional system, we could have multiple parties and coalition governments, but we don’t operate that way. A third party might occasionally bring a new idea to the table that gets absorbed by one of the major party platforms, but the impossibility of third party success in our country is due to the system, not any particular issue.
Abortion is a hot issue, but so is gun-control, the death penalty, war, etc. As I said, it’s not the issue, it’s the system.
More choices does not always mean better. Especially in politics. Just look at the mess we have up here.
Death nail?
Common expression … similar in meaning to “knell in the coffin”
That’s why it is “death knell.” I assume a death nail is something you crucify someone with.
“I assume a death nail is something you crucify someone with.”
No…that would be a hang nail.
Tibbs, not even you are that naive. I (and perhaps other hard right folks) can think of at least a half dozen issues that cause us to really dislike the current administration. The fact that they want to continue killing babies is just one of them.
We have had numerous 3rd parties and what has that gotten us? People are happy with the status quo. Perhaps, not you and I, but most people. Otherwise there would be change, right?
I thought we lived in the greatest country in the world? A country the Europeans, Asians, Latin American’s Middle Easternerns, and eveyone else in between wished they lived at. And if that’s the case, don’t we still have the greatest place on earth, even with the current economic situation?
pro-choice, pro-life, and Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative - - these are no longer positions or points of view - - they’ve become symbols, symbols that don’t represent any reality, but serve to get the masses lower brain stems a’twitchin
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Knell: intransitive verb 1 : to ring especially for a death, funeral, or disaster
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I thought we lived in the greatest country in the world? A country the Europeans, Asians, Latin American’s Middle Easternerns, and eveyone else in between wished they lived at. And if that’s the case, don’t we still have the greatest place on earth, even with the current economic situation?
Well, I live in the greatest country in the world. You are just my smaller neighbour to the south. 
Is Canada still selling it’s citizenship to the Chinese?
We give ours away for free - just need a container ride in a ship, and getting past the border.
That’s why it is “death knell.” I assume a death nail is something you crucify someone with.
Hmmm…my first guess would have been the “killing claw” that raptors have.
See? I could take Tibbsy and his brand of conservatism more serious if he’d get his English expressions in order. It’s death KNELL. But maybe he means it’s the final act of coitus that’ll signal the demise of our hopes for a third party here in the United States. You know…the ultimate lay that gives you an orgasm so powerful you expire from the intensity of it? Or the boo-foo that both parties in government are currently doing to us with this new budget?
I’m just sayin’…
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Since Tibbs identifies it with abortion, one would think that “clothes hanger” would be a more appropriate metaphor than “nail.” 
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If people were that happy with the status quo, then the call for “change” would not have played so well in the last election.
The problem is that the only way out of this mess is for some viable party to take a principled stand against statism, and the chances of either major party doing that in the near future appear to me to be very slim. (If Republicans had rallied around Ron Paul, I might have seen things differently,* but that didn’t even come close to happening.) Apparently, the leaders of both major parties don’t consider there’s enough popular support to justify that. If someone can figure out a way to steer one of the major parties in that direction, fine, but right now the best chances–meager as they are–seem to me to lie with a third party, whether it be the Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, or whatever.
The most important thing is to build a significant popular pro-freedom, pro-reason movement that can become the constituency for a pro-freedom party, regardless of what the party label turns out to be. Potentially, that movement could draw converts from various existing parties as well as from independents.
*I’m not suggesting that Ron Paul was an ideal candidate, but the way he was received by Republicans in general certainly says something about the state of that party.