With No Labels abandoning its bid to run its “unity ticket” in 2024, the last hope for a moderate alternative to the duopoly of our incumbent parties for this election cycle vanished. This cycle began with great excitement in the middle of the political spectrum. The parties had careened so far toward the edges that it seemed a moderate alternative would finally emerge. In addition to the No Labels effort, Andrew Yang’s Forward Party merged with the SAM Party and the Renew America Movement to form a new party that could have been that moderate alternative.
Today, polling consistently shows that about half the country refuses to identify with either of the incumbent political parties. Moreover, that half favors more moderate, common-sense solutions to every major issue the country faces. Having that moderate alternative is the galvanizing issue of our time.
The Forward Party leaders based their strategy on the bizarre belief that the party could not stand for anything other than electoral reform and some vague “can’t we all just get along” platform. No Labels, at least, made a half-hearted attempt at stating some principles. But those were so general that they were mostly received with a deafening yawn.
The crucial error in the No Labels strategy was that it dedicated its efforts solely to the objective of electing a presidential ticket, not building a true political party that would compete at all levels. Without that party infrastructure, running a national campaign for president is virtually impossible. It was, therefore, unsurprising tha… Read more
"Man, Trump is Trump and Biden is fumbling the bag HARD this time around, a third party could cook real hard this election cycle and possibly even get funding if they just sold the right message and didn't look like insane people!" Libertarians, for some reason:
"Libertarians believe racial segregation is perfectly acceptable, so long as it's done without violence."
No, libertarians do NOT believe in segregation. Segregation is a system of laws by government designed to separate groups. How does that comport with libertarianism?
I think they're just being consistent with the position of "libertarians can do whatever they want as long as they are not being compelled or compelling anyone else."
So they're not interpreting it as state-ordered segregation, but voluntary grass-roots level instead.
There's no such thing as "voluntary segregation". "Grass-roots" could be people organizing without the government to impose segregation via small arms and clubs, as in the days immediately after Reconstruction, but it's still violence. There's no other way to do it.
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With Bill Ackman endorsing RFK Jr, two of the most unattractive people in American life are teaming up, combining some of the worst positions of Democrats and Republicans into a third way option.
@WiseEggsRepublican2wks2W
It's grimly funny that this cycle's most serious third party challenger is doubling down on the most unattractive aspect of both mainstream parties. If RFK started mildly criticizing Israel he would be the most significant third party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt.
@MotivatedLardGreen2wks2W
"Third party candidates can't win"
They can. But you need to work for it. And you can't expect it to happen in one election cycle.
Let's teach Genocide Joe come November
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