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The two party system oversimplifies things, so you end up with "small government" and "traditional government" in the same bucket.
by dbmikus 3y ago
The two party system oversimplifies things, so you end up with "small government" and "traditional government" in the same bucket.
- lapcat 3y agoExactly. This needs to be said more. The political party duopoly in the US and some other countries belies a vast range of political beliefs in the population. If you look closely at each party, there are many competing factions within, often vehemently opposed. The words "conservative", "liberal", "right", "left", etc., are practically meaningless, and I'm old enough to have seen them change over the decades, sometimes radically. They're nothing but trendy labels.
- analog31 3y agoIndeed, the duopoly tends to become attached to social divisions, and you could choose any of those divisions to label the parties: Liberal vs conservative Secular vs religious Governance vs identity politics The list goes on and on. In an odd historical analogy, the electric charges were originally assigned "negative" and "positive" according to what happened when they were combined, with no hypothesis as to the underlying cause.