Election results

[aa_bronson]

The most notable thing about the Canadian election results, from my vantage here in New York, was how invisible they were. Not one person at work commented on them, for example. Not a surprise really. They probably didn't even know they had happened

Comments

[aa_bronson]

But wouldn't it be great if there were racially or regionally based parties in the US, for example a party representing the south, or a party for Afro-Americans?... I mean real parties, with real power, of course.

[bluebear2]

That would be cool. Not expecting to get in power but hoping to influence things. I don't know if a representative of a minor party would influence things in the U.S. the way they can in a parliamentary system. How does it work there?

[aa_bronson]

well, there is no such thing as a minor party really... a party that had only 2 seats in parliament one election can have 50 seats the following election... it happens all the time, although not usually to that degree. And new parties are formed, old parties join other parties to make coalitions and so on. What is more mysterious to me is the workings of the American system, which is structured in such a way that only two parties can have power. It seems a very monolithic and unrepresentative form of government, it has no way to adjust to the ebb and flow of civilization, and of populations. The enormous latin population in southern California, for example, who represents them?