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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You don't have a plan so you don't get to make that criticism. But maybe get into labor organizing to build some actual power so you don't have to pretend incrementalism qualifies as a plan.
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Oh a labor movement! Why didn't we think of that!
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Bolded: if this isn't just you trolling (and you aren't known for that so I don't think it is) it comes across as monumentally selfish, man. You're pissed off so let everyone die? You'll stay inside while those around you pop off, and hope everything will be better when you come out? You may choose death but you're not entitled to choose it for everyone else. I have to say, I'm disappointed in you. I thought you had more moral fibre than that.
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It's not.
The reason society is moving so far out of whack is that they've had it too easy for too long. The generation that built a Global Liberal Democracy survived the depression and World War 2. They knew what real threats were and they decided to never allow them to happen again. They marched to the polio vaccine lines.
This generation thinks that food and peace will always be there. There's no getting through to them. Have you talked to these morons?
Look at these ****ing people - you try getting through to them.
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Originally Posted by rubber soul
There have been third-party candidates in the past, most successfully, Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party in 1912. He didn't win but he did garner more votes and electoral votes than the Republican incumbent, William Howard Taft. Others who ran haven't been as successful, but a few have been able to influence the election for the eventual winner (Wallace for Nixon, Nader for Bush).
We have plenty of various political parties in the US, but the Dems and GOP have had a lock on the populace (mostly by raising money) for well over a hundred years now. I think people really want a Centrist party since neither party is willing to nominate someone closer to the center (say what you will about Biden, but, trust me, he does swing left). Unfortunately, the major parties have always found a way to keep the other parties out.
Would be interesting to see a Manchin or even a Romney run as an independent. Don't think either could win, but they could possibly make some noise, much like Ross Perot did in 1992. (And, to a lesser extent, 1996).
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TR as a Third Party Candidate is a bit misleading. He had been President before. That's not a good test-case for a third party run. He also gave us, as a result of his run, Wilson as President, and that was a fairly miserable administration.
As Gore Vidal said - There are only two parties in the US. Jefferson and Hamilton. The People vs. Institutions. And no matter how you slice it - that's the end result. This moronic idea that "we need to end the duopoly!" is said by people who only read half the book. To offer some olive branch here, Vidal also believes there's only one political party in the US - The Corporate Party in which Democrats and Republicans are just wings of this party.
It will always be People vs. Institutions. There is no other option. And Centrism, to this end is just the very American practice of dividing up power. Three branches of government. 50 states. 12 national banks. Market, market, market.
There is no 3rd party. There will be no third party. Have you ever looked at the Green Partys foreign policy? It's unhinged. The Libertarians in general aren't a serious group - they might as well be the Hogwarts party.