[joshcorbin]

If you were to eliminate one form of differentiation (parties), another would evolve to fill the void. In fact, as soon as you start trying to abolish parties, you will implicitly create at least two parties: those for, and those against.

The Internet does not solve this; to the contrary, it only help to amplify the effect of what Freud called the "Narcissm of small differences" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences ).

We see this fact recapitulated in every domain of technology such as: - Linux v Windows v Apple - Fedora v Redhat v Debian v Ubuntu v Arch v Gentoo v ... - $OUR_EDITOR v $THEIR_EDITOR - Slashdot v Hacker News

The difference is that the political landscape isn't nearly as diverse. However this is changing already due to the Internet. Agree with their views or not, the Tea Party is sign of this.

The way forward is to partition more, not less. Trying to pretend like we can do away with partitions is flawed at inception.