[Cronos]

You know, that's one thing I could never understand -- how come, we, one of the largest countries in the world, only have, in reality, a two party system? Witht he kind of diversity we have and even had (in the 50s say), we should have had a multi-party system like the Brits have.

[nopardons]

The FFs,in their infinite wisdom,set our politics up so that we are NOT able to have multiple parties,which make for some strange bedfellow coalitions.That sort of thing only "works" in a parliamentary systems.

There have been all kinds of fringe parties,in America,but thankfully,they NEVER really amount to all that much.And don't even start in on how the GOP was a fringe party.It replaced the Whigs,but the Republicans had also made up a rather large part of the Whig Party.

From our beginnings,we really were a two party system...Federalists and anti-Federalists.