Cindy Approaches the Twoof

[Babbylonian]

Personally I think he may have a point. The spectrum of political beliefs in a democracy can't be fully represented by only two parties. It is a classic false choice fallacy. Whether it amounts to an actual conspiracy, or just people with lots of money perpetuating the status quo for their own advantage is debatable.

It's only a false choice fallacy if you base your votes simply on whether someone is a democrat or republican. If, instead, you vote based on the people as individuals, then the word "representative" starts meaning something. Engaging in the local political process can help in this regard as well.

I don't know if a bipartisan government is the best way to go. I do know that I prefer it compared to some of the more chaotic governments I've read about (such as Israel), and I don't think that the 2-party system is inherently dysfunctional. Now, if every vote in Congress (and the state legislatures, where one's voice can be heard even better if one has an interest) split along party lines, I might believe it was a fundamentally flawed way to do things. Since votes don't tend to split that way, I think the spectrum of representation is wider than it seems when one simply looks at the political party to which each representative belongs.