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Citizen #34:
Dermot | I've been pondering whether a two-party system wouldn't add a little excitement to our elections. That and maybe some totally unfair winner take all system of voting that would mean you could lose by a whisker and still not get elected. PR is tedious.*
But what would the cleavage be? Some SERIOUS ridiculous ideology that would get everbody's temprature rising? One answer occured to me yesterday evening.
This requires a small detour into Swedish history, so the President may find this very familiar, and you do have permission to skip this part. In the 18th century the big question in Sweden was whether to ally with France or Russia. the pro-French party were known as the Hats, and their rivals the pro-British (later pro-Russian )party known as the Caps.
The latter was a pejorative name thought up by the Hats based on the Caps' boring sleepy policy of peace and prosperity, which suggested that they preferred their night caps to bucaneering around the Baltic with the French. The Hats name came from the ceremonial three-cornered hat worn by the members of the house of nobles in the Swedish Estates.
That sartorial elegance is a must is I think something everyone can agree on. And it is as rational as any other partisan division. And what precisely define a hat and a cap would allow for infinite possibilities of factionalism. The actual policy of the nation can be hammered out semi-rationally, but the actual fireworks and party identification shoud be simply a matter of pulling a head covering. Or not. Perhaps the third party could be the bare heads?
*while perfectly good thing in all other contexts invovling life, death and taxes.
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