The Two Party System is Best for America

Pro failed to follow the rules of the debate that were clearly stated."First round is acceptance and clarification of the rules and positions."They started round two early, but I will still give my opening arguments here. 1. There are many different ideologies that are possible that are not the ideologies of the GOP (Republicans) and the DNC (Democrats)First off, the two main parties do not give an accurate representation of the ideologies present in American society. The ideology of the DNC is primarily modern liberalism. That means they tend to be supportive of government intervention in the economy, and they tend to be socially liberal (supports legalizing pot, gay marriage, abortion, etc). On foreign policy areas, they tend to support intervention if it is foreign aid (1) and not military intervention. Also, the DNC supports the use of the United Nations. The GOP appears to be the opposite in all these categories. They often support less government intervention in the economy, but they often support more government intervention in personal matters (against legalizing pot, against gay marriage, against abortion, etc). They also often support military intervention over diplomacy. The parties seem to represent the complete opposite views. This creates problems. First off, they don't have complete opposite views (but we'll get to that later). Second off, what if there is a combination of these views? What if someone is more like the GOP on the economy, but they are like the DNC on foreign policy? What happens then is even if that candidate won't get nominated for either of the two main parties, and even if they have a huge amount of support, they won't have a shot at being president. Voters that share combinations of different parts of the ideologies of the DNC and GOP get under-represented in congress because the DNC and GOP are basically the only two parties with a chance to get enough support. 2. The GOP and DNC are too similarThis is a more controversial statement than the previous point, but it's just as true. The GOP has supported many legislative ideas that should be DNC ideas. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both increased the national debt substantially even though they were supposed to be opposed to over spending in government. In the same way, the DNC has supported many GOP ideas that should be DNC ideas. Barack Obama has continued the aggressive foreign policy and encroachment of civil liberties that caused George W. Bush to leave office with a very low approval rating. Because there are only two major parties, politicians have to do what they can to get votes instead of staying ideologically consistent. Even if they do something that their base doesn't approve of, they will not lose their supporters. There is no necessity for credibility. If there were ten parties, or no parties, they could just do whatever their ideology and rhetoric says. They would be more honest and straightforward with their base because if they don't be honest and straightforward, their base would leave them for a different option. Also, because of ballet access laws (3), the Democrats and Republicans can work together to make sure they are the only two parties that have a chance. Not only are the DNC and GOP similar, but they have the same goal; they want to concentrate power between themselves.3. Our founding fathers said soOur founding fathers were against the ideas of political parties in general. It doesn't matter if the system creates order. Parties restrict ideas. People can't think for themselves in a party system because if they go too far outside their party lines, they get abandoned and disowned by their own peers. Our second President John Adams said this:There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.(4)Exactly what he feared occurred, and the problems come with it. When we don't listen to our founding fathers, we always have run into issues. Many of the original founding fathers were against interventions in the other hemisphere. We started intervening in the other hemisphere, and now we are in inescapable debt. Our founding fathers warned us about government that harms our civil liberties, and now the NSA is able to collect our records without our permission or knowledge. There are so many bad things that our government does that if we only had listened to our founding fathers, we would be in a better situation.I'm not going to rebuttal in this round, and therefore, can you please copy and paste your opening argument into round two. I will place my rebuttal in round three once you do that.Also, if my links aren't working, I'll place them in the comments.(1) http://www.republicanviews.org... (2) http://zfacts.com... (3) http://hammeroftruth.com... (4) http://www.washingtonsblog.com...