Is our 2 party system just a con?

[nomadpete]

Australia, Britain and USA are basically two party democracies. Is it really democratic (Of the people, by the people), when it is basically a closed system where voters only get the choice of 'least worst', without a 'sack the lot' (no confidence) option?

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by nomadpete

[nomadpete]

 We have a system that pretty much mandates there will be two parties, not one less, not one more. Every new party established has been absorbed by one of the two throughout our history...just as soon as they get sick and tired of being irrelevant. The small parties are trivial.

There is something else I scratch my head over. The question of why aren't we tossing a bad power out? Because we don't have anything like the "vote of no confidence". We have to wait for election time for that to swap to the other squabblers. We are stuck with whatever we voted for another cycle, poweless to curb any crazy behaviour. 

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, nomadpete said:

We are stuck with whatever we voted for another cycle, poweless to curb any crazy behaviour. 

Haven't you worked out the 'democracy' is another word for 'monarchy in other clothes'? It has always been this way, and will always be that way. Those in the society who do not have power or influence can never hope to direct the direction in which a society moves.

[facthunter]

Minority parties usually have ONE "THING"  that Unites them and outside of THAT Not Much else in common and are MORE unstable and likely to just disapear. Libs look after those Higher up the Socio economic scale and Labor Having Grown out of the Union Movement, looks after the Less well off. Libs have the Better Business Plan as their base has the wherewithal to FUND them better . We ALL expect government to DO more and more' BUT don't want to cough up Money to Pay for it. 

  It's dead easy to say "they are all Crooks" and NOT REALLY THINK about it.   Nev

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

This is why I asked the question: "What would you do and think if some other party/s were voted into government?"

 

Only one poster gave an answer.

 

Say the ALP and the Coalition lost to other parties. Would that in itself foment into a violent civil war in OZ? 

 

"Two-Party" system means just that, it doesn't mean the two parties have to always be the ALP and the Coalition.

[facthunter]

A Rose by any Name would smell as sweet.  It could be a right wing Quasy-Christian Capitalists Party V's a Democratic Socialists Party Or God forbid, a  set up Like IRAN .A God Emperor like Noth Korea. Corrupt and repressive Regimes in General. The rest Makes HERE look Pretty GOOD You don't Know when you are well off. IF you  wait for Perfection you will die frustrated and achieve Little.  Nev