From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/7/26 11:47, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:44:30 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D´Oliveiro   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The phrase that’s missing here is “multiparty democracyâ€?.   
   Can you have   
   >> a real democracy with a realistic choice of only two parties, where   
   >> every contest is seen as a zero-sum game? And with so much political   
   >> interference in the election process?   
   >>   
   >> I think the US is an outstanding example as to why the answer is no?.   
   >   
   > Catch is you either have a 2 party state or a multi-party state. Which   
   > would you prefer - the present US situation where the parties are both   
   > deserting the center or the British situation where you have a party   
   > in power where they have managed to dig themselves a pit, fallen into   
   > it and yet are still guaranteed 4 more years of power - and the   
   > opposition parties as much at war with each other as they are with   
   > Labour.   
   >   
   > Because even in the last year of Biden there was little or no talk of   
   > policies remotely in the center. My reaction to the second Biden   
   > debate (which I watched live) was "here I thought Biden had a good   
   > chance - but after tonight this is going to be a defeat of epic   
   > proportions". And I wasn't sure whether his policies or his mental   
   > acuity was his worst problem.   
      
   	But Biden did not run. Kamala Harris was the Democratic candidate   
   and started late to finish last which was not her fault at all. The   
   consequences   
   are terrible for the USA. Which was already with the removal of limitations   
   on contributions to Political Parties and Candidates pointing itself to the   
   obsolescence  of its power.   
   	Before that the pretence of Representative Democracy was removed   
   in ther 1920s in limiting the number of Representatives of the American   
   People at 435 regardless of our massive population increases.   
   	When the radical religious right seized control of the Supreme Court   
   of the USA it may have dealt a fatal blow to the liberalizations of the   
   Social Order which have happened since World War II.   
   	The choice by the people of the present leader is unfortunate for   
   many reasons foremost in my minds the rejection of science that disagrees   
   with the profits of many who must hate the generations which may come.   
      
   	I am 88 yoa and was born in a freer time but amid rumors of war   
   and now we have a leader in the USA, others in Russia and China who   
   are on the verge of  creating chaos.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul   
     in this world - and never will. (Mark Twain)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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