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3 Reasons Why A Successful Third Party Wouldn't Solve Anything

Akagi2 Wrote: Jul 22, 2009 10:16 PM

"So the solution is to take power away from Congress..."

And if you look around the world when you have (or had) weak legislatures, you have strong bureaucracies--Japan, India, Italy.

Is taking power from an elected body and giving it to an unelected one what you had in mind--some how I don't think so.

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3 Reasons Why A Successful Third Party Wouldn't Solve Anything

Whether they be Libertarians, members of the Constitution Party, Reform Party members, angry independents, or tea partiers who don't feel either party is serving their interests, there are plenty of disaffected people agitating for a third party in America.

Although I think it's extremely unlikely that a successful third party could get off the ground, let us, for the length of this column at least, assume that the Republican Party folds and a newer, purer, more conservative party rises in its wake. Sounds great, right?

Well, not exactly.