Multi-Party Democracy

Sometimes we agonize over the limitations of the de facto two party system we have in the U.S. Get a notion of what's involved in a truly multi-party system by reading a Times of Israel description of the political landscape in Israel.

This quote sums up the Israeli problem:

Ours (snip) is an unwieldy, sectoral public, with its mix of Jews, Arabs, radical righties, radical lefties, the ultra-Orthodox, the fiercely secular and all manner of folk in between and far beyond.

And we think we have a divided electorate in the U.S.