The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.
Thomas “The Boss” B. Reed
Onetime Speaker of the U.S. House in the early 1900’s
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The Explainer
Just after EDSA 1 (i believe at around the time the 1987 Constitution was being drafted), Arturo M. Tolentino was interviewed and he recommended a return to a ‘two party system’. It sounded quaint then. Almost, twenty years later, it does not sound as quaint. Nevertheless, won’t having a run-off election combine the benefits of a multiparty system with the decisiveness of a two-party setup?
one cannot just sit and watch…at certain times, he has to squirm and shout…
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
– Henry Louis Mencken
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee  I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee  that says, fool me once, shame on  shame on you. Fool me  you can’t get fooled again.”
 President George W. Bush