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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:09:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner)
Cc:        brett@lariat.org, 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:  <199903051809.LAA10364@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990305115910.A87593@rucus.ru.ac.za> from "Neil Blakey-Milner" at Mar 5, 99 11:59:10 am

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> > >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 nearly a year out of date.

Besides which, given the existance of an electoral college, the US
is a Republic, not a Democracy.

8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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