re: #151 alegrias

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Been there, done that. Those third parties turned out to be real freak shows.

Our country does better than most with this bi-cameral group which as everyone knows has plenty of shades of Republican and Democrat, and grades from squishy to solid as a rock.

We always end up back at two parties, but there’s often a transitional period where three or four parties are active. I’m thinking specifically of how the Republican Party was founded when the two major parties were the Democrats and the Whigs. When the Whigs flamed out, many of its members, including Lincoln, became Republicans. I could imagine a third party founded by center-right elements of both parties eventually supplanting one of the Big Two.