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05-06-2008, 00:07
#120: Two Parties For Two Long? [Ren yi; ed:Sirocco]
The Issue
Representatives of several minor political parties have joined their voices to object to stiff ballot access requirements.
The Debate
1. "Two-party politics is squeezing the life out of democracy in @@NAME@@," laments @@RANDOMNAME@@, leader of the Pragmatic Radical Party...
In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/opinion/04friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin):
Indeed, we are at a point now where the only thing that might work is what I would call “radical pragmatism” — a pragmatism that is as radical and energetic as the extremism that it hopes to nullify.
The Issue
Representatives of several minor political parties have joined their voices to object to stiff ballot access requirements.
The Debate
1. "Two-party politics is squeezing the life out of democracy in @@NAME@@," laments @@RANDOMNAME@@, leader of the Pragmatic Radical Party...
In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/opinion/04friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin):
Indeed, we are at a point now where the only thing that might work is what I would call “radical pragmatism” — a pragmatism that is as radical and energetic as the extremism that it hopes to nullify.