10-26-2018, 11:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2018, 11:39 AM by Eric the Green.)
(10-26-2018, 05:47 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: If I were American, I would vote for any third party, never for the Big Two. The US party system is so stuck in the 18th century, it's sad.
The Modern Whig Party seems a good choice.
Well, but isn't the Whig Party an 18th century party? The liberals of 18th century England?
Actually, the Republicans are stuck in the worst economic aspects of 18th century liberalism, with none of its graces. It is also beholden to social conservatism, having taken over the legacy of Dixie and the Bible Belt, thus ditching its original purpose totally.
The Democrats are watered-down socialists, born of the late 19th century genuine populist movement, which took over the Jacksonian southern party at that time, and is sometimes given to compromise too much with the regressive Republicans, because the Republicans have the power.
In the USA, I belong to the Green Party, which is a progressive alternative, born of the greenpeace vision of the 1960s, but sometimes given to impractical exaggeration.
Libertarians are the same as Republicans in the economic sphere, but with some 18th century liberal graces, and sometimes responsive to the peace movement.