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Strength Of Political Parties

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Political parties are good for the nation because they encourage stability and increase democratic participation. Stability is critical to the United States government. Political parties can, at times, bog down governments in bureaucracy, but this has the benefit of ensuring that democracies are not often the victim of tyrants taking control. Tyrants thrive on the extremes of ideologies, and since their views are radical, they are less likely to be represented by a political party and, in turn, able to gain power. There is a reason that the US has the oldest continuing democracy in the world: because of its immediate embrace of political parties. This embrace has ensured that the US has never fallen into the grips of anarchy. While the inefficiency
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