I dont know how many of us out there are Democrat, but as a democrat in America i feel a strong support for the DPP.
How about you guys?
What? There are two parties in America? Really?
There are at least as many different political parties in the US as there are free, prospering minorities in China.
[quote=“Rabidpie”]I don’t know how many of us out there are Democrat, but as a democrat in America i feel a strong support for the DPP.
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Why?
They just rubber-stamp each other’s policies and put on political theater on TV, all the while chasing after the same money pie. Congress is very meta now, with voting on many bills not meant to be votes on the bills themselves, but to put people on record, i.e. shafting your opponents in campaign ads. Same with debates and procedural maneuvering. Somehow Taiwan is way ahead of the US on this.
There are at least as many different political parties in the US as there are free, prospering minorities in China.[/quote]
Say what you like, a country’s stability or well-being does not depends on the number of political parties it has. Do you need some quotation?
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How much to get my bathroom retiled?
Uh. What are you talking about?
[quote=“sandman”][quote=“Rabidpie”]I don’t know how many of us out there are Democrat, but as a democrat in America i feel a strong support for the DPP.
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That’s a really good question Sandman’s posed back to Rabidpie. I don’t feel my home-country political views lead to any particular sympathies or appreciation for either of the parties. In Taiwan, there’s no ideological point of view to their governance in anything approaching the efforts to pigeonhole Americans as “liberal” or “conservative”, no particular party-wide viewpoints on being “libertarian” or not, no party-wide viewpoints on government being big or small, taxes low or high, etc. Legislators here, by and large, will hop onto any populist bandwagon that they think will help them get: 1) votes and 2) attention.
Although I had hopes back in 2000 that the DPP would prove itself to be a strong and clean alternative to the KMT, they’ve done just about everything possible to disabuse me of such a notion. I chalk up most of my hopes for the DPP in those days to do well as simply wishing well for what was then an “underdog”. I had hoped that DPP leaders who had served time as political prisoners would do everything possible to ensure a fair and politically neutral legal system, and yet the ridiculous prosecution of unpopular fringe-party figurehead Elmer Fung has given me no confidence that the DPP leaders truly care about ending the unfair practices used to persecute them.
I’m a gun-owning (stateside not here of course), pro-life Democrat with a strong libertarian streak – and that “libertarian” part would have made me a conservative in America until the Republicans forgot whole sections of the Constitution. But both the KMT and DPP seem pretty obstructionist and petty to me. Make of that whatever you will.