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by moshezadka 5701 days ago
I'm not even sure what he's suggesting. It's easy to say "let's ban political parties", but what would be the actual law? That people aren't allowed to call themselves Democrats (or Republicans?)? That people aren't allowed to say "I identify with the ideals espoused by X?"

Parties are an emergent phenomenon in almost all democratic systems, because politicians work in groups -- the same as anyone else, by the way. If Scott Adams suggested a specific legal system (for example, banning pooling campaign funds) I could find the flaw in that, but he cleverly gives no details, and so makes it impossible for people to find flaws in his (non-existent) system.