The oddball policy planks of the smaller parties scare Americans because they only see issues as black or white. So, if the smaller parties get in, they will have total control (from the average American's point of view). Thus, a two-party system works, because it plays to the "Black Hats vs. White Hats" mentality the average person has.
Your argument for multiple parties (too much for the lobbyists to bribe) is the exactly why the lobbyists work against it. It costs them less to manipulate two-parties. So they spend lots of money to promote a two-party system as well as manipulate those parties.
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Date: 2008-08-29 05:11 am (UTC)Your argument for multiple parties (too much for the lobbyists to bribe) is the exactly why the lobbyists work against it. It costs them less to manipulate two-parties. So they spend lots of money to promote a two-party system as well as manipulate those parties.