Should the two major US political parties be sued for anticompetitive practices?
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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: November 25, 2018, 05:30:58 PM »

Huh
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« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2018, 05:31:40 PM »

On what grounds?
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« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2018, 10:16:53 PM »

being anti-competitive?
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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2018, 07:13:13 AM »

I’m pretty sure the Florida Democratic Party could feasibly be accused of match fixing, at the very least.
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2018, 11:35:17 AM »

I’m pretty sure the Florida Democratic Party could feasibly be accused of match fixing, at the very least.

It all makes sense now. Someone in the FL Dem hierarchy must have worked out an arrangement to settle their gambling debts.
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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2018, 04:24:27 PM »

I’m pretty sure the Florida Democratic Party could feasibly be accused of match fixing, at the very least.

It all makes sense now. Someone in the FL Dem hierarchy must have worked out an arrangement to settle their gambling debts.

And that someone, per WikiLeaks, was the US Representative for Florida's 23th congressional district or people working out of her district office, at least.
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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2018, 10:44:57 AM »


It's the majority vote system, not the parties.
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« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2018, 11:44:06 AM »

sure, that's most of it, but the big two do a lot at the state level to make it even harder for third parties to be competitive.
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« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2018, 10:28:46 AM »

No, because the Supreme Court has held that federal antitrust laws don’t apply to political activity.
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« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2018, 02:06:11 PM »

I wish we only had a major center-right and center-left party in Germany. The split political landscape sucks and creates political instablity. We have too many parties in the parliaments.
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« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2018, 03:17:14 PM »

Our electoral system is to blame for the two party system, not the parties themselves.
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2018, 09:51:47 PM »


It's the voters not the system
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