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 nearly a year out of date.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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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