Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport for this link to the transcript of the February 15 debate in New York city, “The two-party system is making America Ungovernable”. Debating the affirmative were David Brooks and Arianna Huffington. Debating the negative were Zev Chafets and P. J. O’Rourke.
None of the debaters mentioned ballot access laws. Zev Chafets, who is based in Israel, seems unaware of any ballot access problem in the United States. On page 38 he says, “Anybody can join a party in this country. Anybody could run for office in this country.” The truth is, in Georgia, if one is not a Republican or a Democrat, one cannot run for U.S. House of Representatives in a regularly-scheduled election. Many have tried to get on the ballot, all have failed, since the law was toughened in 1964.
is making = HAS MADE
ANTI-Democracy minority rule party hack gerrymanders control lots of regimes — i.e. lots of brain dead monarchy/oligarchy regimes in the U.S.A. — in addition to the m/os in lots of foreign regimes.
Based on his Wikipedia entry, I think what Chafets was really saying is that the US two-party system is good for Israel. Meanwhile, Israel itself has a ten or twelve party system.
# 2 Due to P.R. — with Israel being ONE election area for electing the Parliament.
This is really unfortunate. I had high hopes for this debate. Why are people so willing to believe the absurd lie that there are free and fair elections in the United States