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« on: June 17, 2007, 08:04:15 PM »

Need I remind you that the Democratic Party currently holds a majority in both sections of Congress, something that the Republicans did not even come close to doing during most of the days of FDR?

Well to be honest they took the House in 1946, though that was after FDR, but yes you're not going to see a party die just because it's out of power for 16 years. You can see some major changes in the party, compare Calvin Coolidge to Dwight D. Eisenhower or John Breckenridge to Grover Cleveland, but complete destruction of a party would take something more than 16 years out of power.

Even then, though, you might destroy one party but another will come and take its place anyway, it's always happened. We've only had about 8 years of single party rule in this country, from 1820 to 1828, and those years were pretty rocky for that single party. Also I don't know why you'd want such a system. Why turn a free and fair democracy into Singapore?
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