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Originally Posted by exovetek
The party system never made much sense to me, and I never could choose one over the other(Democrat or Republican).
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BEFORE YOU READ THE FOLLOWING, PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT AS AN OFFENCE OF ANY SORT, IT'S JUST A VIEW ON YOUR WORLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENT CULTURE, HISTORY AND SOCIETY.
Well, the bipolar party system surely is interesting (no, it really isn't). Back before 1989 we had a bipolar system here too. One (the bigger) party, which always won, was called The Communist Party (and it's remnants are pretty succesful here nowadays too (just renamed to Socialists) - they literally rely on the weak, lame, stupid, powerhungry and parasitic ones - 42% of population - note that almost all countries with socialist governments in Europe were/are/will be on the verge of absolute collapse) and then there was the second party called The Agrarian Party (which went to covert Coalition with the Communist party at any possible time - extinct now).
What you have is pretty much the same.
Here it was the most ruthless, stupidest, arrogant people (Communists), who desired power over other people and could achieve that only thru the most lame, uneducated, very wide part of the population.
In your case, the scenario is very similar, but the "free" people make a selection of what is offered to them. Your rulers (let's call them according to the marxist theory "Capitalists") have chosen the slow, more covert, less ruthless form of getting to power.
However what has to (inevitebly) come with an authoritarian regime is slavery (no matter whether you're in chains, have mortgages...) and dictat of power. And just like any dictatorship, it will dissolve, when the people learn to fight it from the inside.
None of these models (Capi or Comu) is good and should be used today (because each of them finds a way to "torcher" a substantial amount of people in the population). But for all people to understand, it has to mutate into a dictatorship. After all nations in this world have known despotism, we can and necessarily will reform the existing models, eliminate many of their parts and base the system on cooperation, empathy and what makes us human, not on money, greed, power and other things that can drive people all over the planet kill other people or eliminate other people for being born somewhere else/having some ideas...
You might find this movie interesting: