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(12-02-2013 12:15 PM)|55555| Wrote:
(12-01-2013 05:14 PM)Hansgrohe Wrote: There were various 3rd parties throughout American history. There were the Whigs, for example.

It's also been said that Republicans traditionally have supported small government but that's changed over the past 10 years. Things like the PATRIOT Act and also SOPA and PIPA received a lot of support from Republicans.

Yeah, neoconservatives have become the establishment and they support growing the government in a number of dangerous and nasty ways. There's a growing sentiment against this and I don't think the republicans are going to continue to garner enough support to win elections without pushing back to the platform of smaller government. There's definitely a need for it in American politics right now since people are waking up to the damage that's been caused by our policy of expanding government in to areas it has no business being in but politicians are failing completely to catch up. It just goes to show that they're motivated not by their need to provide for the needs of the American public but rather by their special interests.

This is accurate. Pretty much sums it up.

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