I feel like a broken record here, but -- to quote Whitesnake -- "Here I go again on my own..."
We NEED to create a viable political party that does not have the words "Democrat" or "Republican" in its name. Yes, the deck is stacked. No, a 3rd party will not win many elections (at first). but, it will be a stake in the ground that we are n…
I feel like a broken record here, but -- to quote Whitesnake -- "Here I go again on my own..."
We NEED to create a viable political party that does not have the words "Democrat" or "Republican" in its name. Yes, the deck is stacked. No, a 3rd party will not win many elections (at first). but, it will be a stake in the ground that we are not ready to give up on this great nation. We are done with the GOP forever -- the brand is eternally tarnished. We cannot go whole hog with the D party -- not because of policy, but because of their perennial inability to come to consensus around effective tactics and strategy. Plus I (and most centrists) are just bone-tired of being lectured and admonished by the far left wing of the party, and I don't want to have to argue those positions to my (hopefully) gettable moderate conservatives.
In practice, for the next few years this party will have to caucus with the Dems, and in national elections, bow out + endorse Dems unless/until we can plausibly project a win by staying in the race. When we spoil, we need to spoil the R's until they are a rump party of rural bigots, not taken seriously by anyone.
This is not fantasy. Things like this happen because people get together and do what needs to be done. Let's fucking start. Please.
I feel like a broken record here, but -- to quote Whitesnake -- "Here I go again on my own..."
We NEED to create a viable political party that does not have the words "Democrat" or "Republican" in its name. Yes, the deck is stacked. No, a 3rd party will not win many elections (at first). but, it will be a stake in the ground that we are not ready to give up on this great nation. We are done with the GOP forever -- the brand is eternally tarnished. We cannot go whole hog with the D party -- not because of policy, but because of their perennial inability to come to consensus around effective tactics and strategy. Plus I (and most centrists) are just bone-tired of being lectured and admonished by the far left wing of the party, and I don't want to have to argue those positions to my (hopefully) gettable moderate conservatives.
In practice, for the next few years this party will have to caucus with the Dems, and in national elections, bow out + endorse Dems unless/until we can plausibly project a win by staying in the race. When we spoil, we need to spoil the R's until they are a rump party of rural bigots, not taken seriously by anyone.
This is not fantasy. Things like this happen because people get together and do what needs to be done. Let's fucking start. Please.
I agree. But we need to get past Trump and his ilk first. Which means Dems for now.