Originally posted by USArmyParatrooperThats why you have independents.
I think a ONE party system would really = a no party system, which I think is ideal.
I'm sick of people drawing party lines and having to defend their "team". Of course I say that but I, myself, am a Democrat. But that's only because I agree with Democratic ideals on most issues. I still would prefer that it was every man and woman for themselv ...[text shortened]... p just for the sake of blasting the "other" party.
Of course, this will never happen.
But they don't get a majority, you need a party to back you up.
Competition allows replacement of the worse and weaker with the better fitted leaders. It's like capitalism or even evolution. If a new company or species appears that is better fitted to its environment, then the other competitors will have to improve and adapt or else face partial displacement... if the old has beens have any sense, they will eventually adapt and try to regain leadership.
So with one-party states, you lose competition and find the increasing signs of the corrupting influence of power.
Or as Lord Acton put it: "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"