On 2016-07-02 11:49 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/2/2016 10:47 PM, Janet B wrote:
>>
> If we had a good third party maybe the other two would improve. I keep
> hoping.



We like to hope. As it stands now, American politics seems to be stuck
with the problem of having only two real parties. I know there are a lot
of others that run, but for all intents and purposes, there are only the
Democrats and the Republicans. All the issues seem to end up polarized.

The other problem is having the president running separately rather than
as the leader of the winning party. In our parliamentary system the
Prime Minister is the leader of the party that wins the most seats. If
the leader of the party does not win in his own riding they either have
to find a new leader from the elected members, or else one of them
resigns and the parachute the leader into that sure riding for a
by-election.