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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The only reason to see a rise of a third party is if there's a significant bloc of voters not served by the two existing parties. In fact, there is a party that serves the voters sebby is thinking of. It's called the Democratic Party. As baltassoc noted, the party has moved quite a bit in the last several years. E.g., over GOP opposition, Clinton balanced the budget. If you're looking for a party that's fiscally responsible and not socially conservative, that's your party, and John Kerry is your man. The people who argue otherwise are looking at the Maxine Waters of the world and caricatures of their own devise.
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No, the Dems are still too in favor of stuff like environmental regulation and food and drug regulation and, oh, ERISA-type protections for Sebby to like them. Sebby wants to be able to dump his car oil and sewage wherever he thinks best, to have to go inspect farms and slaughterhouses himself to make sure his food isn't utterly disgusting and, after he starts his own business, take away people's pensions when things start to go bad. It's not THAT hard to find people to hire who won't notice that they have no enforceable contractual promises for stuff like that.
Seriously, I think that people who want all those kinds of regulations to go away have a point. I just think that having large, densely populated urban areas and markets across the world makes the information costs for replacing the governmental regulation too high. Honestly, it would not occur to me not to dump oil on the ground or whatever. I only know it's bad because I know you aren't allowed to do it, and I asked why.
This is soooo totally outable to a libertarian friend of mine, but I'm 99 9/10% sure he doesn't know this place exists.
