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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
It must be great, creating a fringe party that will never have a chance of being elected in to power. You can say anything and promise everything.
I feel all warm and fuzzy now!!!
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I wouldn't be all that quick to knock fringe parties. They can gain power, and if they don't, they could influence the politics of existing parties. The Tea Party is a good example. The Canadian Conservatives, even better. They started as a Western populist party, the "Reform Party", and went on to form a new natioanal Conservative Party to replace the one that Canadian voters trashed back in the 90s. If folks get peed enough at the mainstream parties, the new kids on the block will gain support; and then the old parties will have to take notice of them. I still regret not seeing the "Let's Have a Party, Party" have more support.
