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When isolationism hides itself as anti-Americanism

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Mets1027/30/2014 6:54:09 pm PDT

re: #4 Kravmavolley

A multiparty system would actually not be the same agent of instability in a presidential system such as ours like it is in a parliamentary system such as Israel’s. That is because we have fixed terms of office and the executive is not dependent upon maintaining the confidence of the legislature to remain in office. Therefore, there would never be the risk of fresh elections if the executive could not carry the day in the legislature.

Currently, the biggest impediment to the establishment of a system with more parties than are currently represented is the fact that we use first-past-the-post for most elections. This encourages the development of two party systems. I don’t know that that is such a bad thing because it usually causes the parties to moderate and play for the center. What is happening now in terms of ideological uniformity being demanded in parties is anomalous, rather than the usual order of things.