Outlaw Political Parties?

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I think my anti-trust comment got enough traction here to not have earned a "stupid suggestion" classification, though.

No, using anti-trust to combat freedom of association doesn't work very well. Perhaps it could be used on the debate commission, but not much else, and anyone who tried to serve them got arrested.

Might as well use anti-trust to try to break up the larger religions.

The solutions have been known for decades. They have been described by lumpenproletariat and Jolly_Penguin. Stop throttling third parties, start reforming the voting system, etc. The reason those solutions have never been implemented is because we need the politicians who would be hurt by these reforms to enact these reforms.

 

[DBT]

Politicians have a tendency to act in their own interest, and of course the ideology of the party they happen to be aligned with.

 

[ZiprHead]

Outlawing political parties. Where has this been done before?

 

[Gun Nut]

Outlawing political parties. Where has this been done before?

dunno... but my thought is more about battling organized crime... or are criminals allowed to "organize" via "free association"? What is "collusion"? (does it exist as a concept or is "collusion" as a crime the ame thing as "freedom" as a crime?)

 

[ZiprHead]

Outlawing political parties. Where has this been done before?

dunno... but my thought is more about battling organized crime... or are criminals allowed to "organize" via "free association"? What is "collusion"? (does it exist as a concept or is "collusion" as a crime the ame thing as "freedom" as a crime?)

 Category:Banned political parties

 

[Tigers!]

Outlawing political parties. Where has this been done before?

I think Lenin tried it as did Stalin as did Hitler.
China does not allow political parties it seems.

 

[PyramidHead]

Outlawing political parties. Where has this been done before?

I think Lenin tried it as did Stalin as did Hitler.
China does not allow political parties it seems.

China has 9 political parties, this is public information

 

[Gun Nut]

All of the Italian mob bosses just needed to call their organizations "political parties" and then they are no longer doing corruption, crime, blackmail, or bribery.. they are just doing politics. Why do you hate America?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Outlawing political parties. Where has this been done before?

I think Lenin tried it as did Stalin as did Hitler.
China does not allow political parties it seems.

China has 9 political parties, this is public information

Doesn't really mean anything as there is no election at the top.

 

[PyramidHead]

China has 9 political parties, this is public information

Doesn't really mean anything as there is no election at the top.

Unlike the United States, you mean, which decides its president through electors in the college who are appointed by party officials. Log off.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

China has 9 political parties, this is public information

Doesn't really mean anything as there is no election at the top.

Unlike the United States, you mean, which decides its president through electors in the college who are appointed by party officials. Log off.

Ah, but those electors get to choose between two people instead of just one, that is the claim made to support that the US does have freedom. So I see a solution for China to become as free as the US.

Take the Communist Party of China and split it into two parties, the Rommunists and the Dommunists. Give them a few minor differences to campaign on that people can point to and say that they are obviously not the same, and then randomly assign all members of the Communist Party to either the Rommunist Party or the Dommunist Party.

In fact, perhaps the Dommunist Party should be named the Dommunistic Party so that if someone leaves off the last two letters members of the Dommunistic Party can throw a fit over it.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

China has 9 political parties, this is public information

Doesn't really mean anything as there is no election at the top.

Unlike the United States, you mean, which decides its president through electors in the college who are appointed by party officials. Log off.

The electors are selected by the vote, we do control who is president. In China there are places you can vote for local offices but that's it.