Letter of the Day: Two isn't enough

Room for more

EDITOR: M?age ?troi anyone?

We have two major political parties: Democrat and Republican. In England, there are three major parties, and in Germany there are six. Italy has more political parties than pasta and France more than they have good wine.

I use to think that the multi-party system was a terrible way to run a country and that our two-party system was the best. No longer. In this century our two parties fight to the point where little gets done, and much is disputed. Reforms of our health care programs, taxes and Social Security are not taking place due to the inability of the politicians to compromise.

I am now wishing we had more major political parties. New parties — the Blue Dog Democrats (the Bulldog Party), the Ripon Society Republicans (the Lincoln Party), Ron Paul (the Isolationist Party), the tea party (the Whig Party) — could form a coalition government among themselves or with the Democrats (the Federalist Party) or the Republicans (the Tories) to run the United States.

I would like to see three parties in the House and the Senate. It could be an improvement. It's hard to imagine it being worse.

THOMAS E. BOYD

Rohnert Park