The two major parties have become tools for their most strident elements, with moderate and temperate political outlooks suffering extensive collateral damage. Interesting, ideas about "equal protection" in Russia back then were as subjective as are many social policy arguments in America today.Īcademic defenders of the American two-party system argue that it helps limit extremism. The road back from that failed experiment cost Russians dearly - and has resulted in one of the most plutocratic economies on earth. After all, it was the communist movement in the USSR that sought every person's equal protection before the law by leveling property rights without regard to tradition, pluralism or federalism. It feels heavy-handed and more like communism than pluralism. This extremism in the service of divisive preferences ignores powerful arguments against universalizing same-sex marriage. Instead, what many Americans hear is that liberal activists will not consider their victory complete until all vestiges of conservative value systems are vanquished - argued by gays who believe their sexual preference is a choice, not a gene. Few leaders within the Democratic Party have been willing to warn ideologically strident special interests within the party to tone down, and leave room for other value systems - like the diversity afforded when traditionalism bumps up against multiculturalism.
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