Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:59:10 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chris@netmonger.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? Message-ID: <19990305115910.A87593@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990304234347.03e51f00@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:44:26PM -0700 References: <4.1.19990304165819.04049340@localhost> <199903050309.UAA22673@usr01.primenet.com> <4.1.19990304234347.03e51f00@localhost>
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On Thu 1999-03-04 (23:44), Brett Glass wrote: > >The two party system is a macroscopic artifact of the electoral > >college, which was invented in the days when you couldn't have > >general elections because of communications and trust issues > >which are no longer relevent. > > If that's so, please explain why two-party systems dominate in > every democracy without a coalition government. Certainly not here (Democratic Party, (New) National Party, African National Congress, Inkhata Freedom Party, Pan Africanist Congress, and tons of others), and increasingly not so in Britain, I think, although my stats are nearly a year out of date. Of course one can always blame the two-party system (Republican/Democrat and Liberal/Conservative) on the insane fear of the evil red bastards taking over our country and destroying freedom whilst educating all our children and making sure noone starves. (Humour tags are hereby inserted for those without the ability to differentiate, and yes, I do think we can make easy comparisons to the current context) This is not to say that I think that we should sit back and enjoy being "one of the many", since as described above (in South Africa), you start to have "one of the too many". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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