(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The discussion of politics, and governments has everyone wondering if the world would be a better place without political parties.

George Washington asked one thing, to not make different parties and we did. America has shut down the government for days due to disgreements more than once. What would it be like if we didn't disagree and everyone agreed?

1. No. Representative or not, it's such a minority of voters in non-primary elections that the margin of error is so absurd politicians can't take voting statistics seriously.

2. Nothing wrong with neoliberalism. I can't imagine anyone actually proposing expanding or bulldozing the welfare state without being a lemming and a rube.

3. Allowing groups to effect legislation adversely is part of the American way. Majoritarian practices lead to repression of minorities, and the checks and balances lower repression to a workable level. Minority representation and every group, no matter how small, having a voice that can be heard in politics is the American Dream. While your voice as an individual is meaningless, your voice as a collective can impact legislative decisions. Students, for example, might find the You must login or register to view this content. is beneficial to their interests and believe there should be focus on their priorities of helping students reach post-secondary education. This is even better highlighted when facing figures like the high demand and low supply of educated workers in post-secondary fields. Majoritarian policies, or the "bigger picture," have no place in the United State.

Political parties are not inherently an issue. The issue is when they sell themselves to cronies. There's no problem with parties aligning themselves with specific beliefs, there is an issue when they get into positions of power and are left unchecked. Money and politics don't mix, and unfortunately political parties at this point in time are more concerned about the representation of those who benefit them, not those who they should be actually representing. There's another issue though, and that is that political parties or politicians in general are a mere reflection of the public. Which really means that the reason they are getting their way is because people are not motivated or educated enough to care about their rights and freedoms. They don't care if political party x or y takes away their freedom, let a private bank control their money supply, cause inflation. That's because "as long as they increase taxes on those evil rich people" they're happy.

The root of the problem does not lie with political parties. It lies with lazy and unmotivated people wanting to change things. In their eyes, voting in another political party will be the way to solve the problem.

Pretty much that is what he said, which isn't true at all. Most politicians stick very close to their elected platform, and parties do very well of making a centralized platform to follow. That doesn't mean the parties or politicians are beneficial to everyone in particular because when a politician goes into office [in the United States], they represent their district and their district's interests. Almost every politician, except the hardcore greens, would vote yes to offshore drilling so long as it doesn't effect anything in their state. In politics, it's all about extracting maximum amount of milk with minimum amount of moo. Unfortunately, all we get these days is moo.