Magical Sailor Fuku

Just wondering if anyone cares for it, in theory. In practice works, too. Personally, I don't like it either way.

Like, what do you mean? In video games?

If that were so, then this would have been in the Video Games forum. ;/

It'd probably be best to elaborate a little more on what you mean. XD

Ah...politics. How I tend to avoid thee...for several reasons. Nowadays, I just don't really care for it. Things are so split between parties it's a miracle anything gets done...that's actually worthwhile for the country as a whole. More than likely it's just good for a state or two and the rest suffer from it all...or something along those lines. It's just...meh, pathetic what it's all become.

*I puke*
Politics. Why'd it have to be politics...?

*KILLS IT WITH FIRE*

I know what the next subject should be. ;p

Good and Bad, as with everything else.
We have seven really active parties, with an eighth trying to find enough foothold amongst dissenters to gain a position in the Parliament. Then there's a smattering of smaller parties that few know of and fewer vote for. Two sides have crystallised themselves since the last election. "Right-wing" is made up of four parties, "Left-wing" is made up by three parties. The groups call themselves, respectively, "the Alliance" and "the Red and Green". Yes, many have facepalmed over that.
It isn't so much Right-wing here as less left-wing, one of those four parties call itself the "new worker's party". Left-wing is pulling in three different directions; socialism, communism and enviromentalism.

I can't really think of politics without thinking of a Party System.

Shouldn't this be in the SoapBox?

It's dead, Jim.

And people need to grow a pair.

Oh, wait.

Political parties are necessary evil in any representative system of government. Every single democratic system on earth has them, and they always end up split between left and right. They're a naturally occurring thing, and they always develop organically. Essentially, when it's time to run a government, people just form into coalitions that become parties. I wish that there weren't any parties and that people could just vote their conscious, but that's the way it is, and griping about it won't ever fix it.

Which is why I rolled up my sleeves and joined the system. I happen to like my party quite a bit anyway...

I don't see it as a necessary evil, but as a flaw in human logic. All it does is breed conflict, impasse and compromise, and the inherent problems therein, rather than actually have their branch of government function like it's supposed to. And I can say that because our government had no intention of having a party system when it was formed, if I recall correctly. It didn't take long for a party system to form, but I can tell you that it wasn't for the interests of the people, because it was started by someone who wanted the kind of control that would be required to convince other people what they wanted, rather than themselves being convinced what he needed to do. And then the two-party system was cemented soon after because of a conflict of interests. And now the whole thing is backwards, where people have to conform to a party with set principles instead of expressing their individual ideas and their elected representatives conforming to, and reflecting, the majority of those ideas. All this does is give the parties the power, not the people, and gives the wrong kind of people the right reason to get involved in politics because, with power, there is money. And lo, most of our legislative branch is controlled by money, from interests that have nothing to do with the people's wants and needs. Rather than being the people's puppet, it's their puppet, to whom people must now rely on because most of their livelihood and securities depend on them.

A party system is nothing more than a simple-minded idea that serves no one other than those that wish to make a government look like a democracy or a republic, when, in reality, it's no more than an illusion to keep the masses ignorant of being slaves to other powers rather than being the power itself, as they're supposed to be. (Which is why people have to align themselves with a party, to be their soldiers, rather than elected officials taking orders from their respective districts and states.) Which works because most of the population are simple-minded and are led to believe that the system is "the way", or is "the best"; as if there's no room for improvement, when, in reality, it's been getting worse since the beginning.

I honestly see no benefit in having a party system. I think it's quite apt to say that a house divided upon itself can not stand, and I think that reflects exactly how most people feel about the legislative branch, and its inability to function adequately enough. At least, considering how god-awful low people consistently rate congress' performance, to the point that we can say that it's the opposite of progress, something is obviously very wrong with it.

I have a very strong distaste for it.

Nobody hates politics more than the people who work for the government.