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^^^ That could be read as "Poor US" as well. Just sayin'...

It usually is.

Stupid Tammany Hall ruined everything!

Joe Mc Carthy didn't do too much for the country, either.

tons and tons of fuel for the cartoonists. and a chuckle for me, just the ridiculousness of it all...! !!

Ah, yes, the cartoons. Those can be pretty good some of the time, when they don't make their point painfully obvious.

Maybe the cartoons are the main reason why they keep the parties around.

How did your main parties land up being represented by a donkey and an elephant, anyway?

Don't forget that we once had a 'Bull Moose Party'!

i know...why?
i read that andrew jackson was the first democrat president to be associated wih the donkey. his opponents labeled him as a populist and a bunch of nasty names, one of them "jackass".
he liked it, the sly guy. used the jackass/donkey as a campaign symbol, but it was thomas nast that used the donkey as a symbol to represent an antiwar faction during the civil war, in a cartoon in harper's weekly.

the elephant may have come from a cartoon with said donkey, with a lions skin and scaring a bunch of animals in the forest, among them an elephant named "the republican vote"

"An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the Forest, and amused himself by frightening all the foolish Animals he met with in his wanderings.' -- Shakespeare or Bacon"

then, history.


also, bull moose. look at those freaking teeth, teddy must have been real easy to caricature.

There was a Rhinoceros Party in Canada..

There was also a British party whose leader at one time was a feline named Cat Mandu.

Animals have been elected to a few town councils in several parts of the world. I'm sure they would do better than some of your human politicians. Or ours, for that matter.

And Britain had Whigs and Tories......odd names, I always thought.

Yisrael has a "Mans Rights in the Family Party". (מפלגת זכויות הגבר במשפחה - רע"ש‎, Miflega Zkhuyot HaGever BeMishpaha - Ra'ash)

campaign on two distinct issues, transmitting primary custody of children to fathers and ending equality for women, they believe this is unnatural and a cause of homosexuality, staunchly anti feminist. they've been accused of violence against women a few times.

"The claims that I am a chauvinist are demagoguery. I love women and support relationships, my mother was a woman and I have a daughter," he said. "I'm not against women but nature has rules: The man should be on top, there should not be equality."

(Schlusser supposedly said this.)

they also want a commission to determine who really killed Yitzhak Rabin.

................... they get no seats.

There is a bunch of interesting registered minor parties in Australia, including the Sports Party, the Smokers' Rights Party, the Natural Medicine Party, the Wikileaks Party (Julian Assange is Australian) and the Motoring Enthusiasts Party; the last one actually managed to get a seat in the Australian federal senate in last year's federal election. Then of course there's the Australian Sex Party, who were initially formed by an adult industry advocacy group, but now have a broader civil liberties platform.

And I thought that American politics has dingbats!

we import and export dingbats.

Wonder if some country has a Dingbat Party.........

Dunno. England used to have The Monster Raving Loony Party, run by Screaming Lord Sutch, but one couldn't actually vote for them.