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They make people believe that they have done a lot to public without doing anything.

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I think that political parties are mainly good. If there were no political parties, America would have a government that would be communist, a Dictatorship or any other type of government. The people would vote for the person representing the party that they agree with most. If most of the people would want the Republican representative, they would vote for them and that person would hopefully (for them, not everyone) win and become the leader, or the other way around with the Democratic party. Political Parties could possibly help a less developed country advance.

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It's an opinion thing really, but as far as I'm concerned political parties in general are a bad idea. Political Parties tend to encourage people to stop thinking for themselves and start thinking what their party thinks.

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It can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.... But politics are necessary to a country because without politics the United States wouldn't exist as it is... We wouldn't have a president or anything we have today...

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It is a very subjective question if political parties are good or bad for America. There are arguments from both the left and the right that in its current form, they are bad.

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politics is not good nor bad, it is just a process of allocating scarce resources authoritatively .

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