Third Party

cawacko

cawacko

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I was going to write this to Taich in response to your last post on the Obama 48% thread but figured to just start a new thread.

I hear you on the 3rd party. My question to you is what do you think a third party would realistically have to do to become more prominent than the Green's and Libertarian's have?

People vote how they do for any number of reasons but how on hot buttom social issues like abortion for example how do you find a middle ground the D's and R's?

Besides the funding infrastructure and all that what postions would a 3rd party hold that could attract large numbers of voters? Because while there are a lot of partisans there are also a lot of people who alternate between voting for R's and D's who would probably consider a third party.
 
cawacko said:
I was going to write this to Taich in response to your last post on the Obama 48% thread but figured to just start a new thread.

I hear you on the 3rd party. My question to you is what do you think a third party would realistically have to do to become more prominent than the Green's and Libertarian's have?

People vote how they do for any number of reasons but how on hot buttom social issues like abortion for example how do you find a middle ground the D's and R's?

Besides the funding infrastructure and all that what postions would a 3rd party hold that could attract large numbers of voters? Because while there are a lot of partisans there are also a lot of people who alternate between voting for R's and D's who would probably consider a third party.
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Cue one liner from WM about how dividing from the party line should be punishable by death.
 
both parties are puppets of the rich. A third party would have no strings.
We're stuck under the thumb of the elite.
We'd have to return to a barter system to end their grip
 
I've experienced Third Party politics and it just strengthened my belief that third parties cannot succeed in this country without major events outside of their direct control making it possible.

The focus of our third parties are also too narrow to take advantage of an opportunity if it came up. They make perfect sense to their membership, but that membership is almost always at critical mass.

Using the Ls and the Gs as an example, most people in the United States generally would like a greener planet and a government that stays out of their business. But an ideological approach to that which becomes the central focus on the party means it is a party only for people obsessed with those issues.

If you are not an environmentalist or a socialist, you are probably not welcome in the Green Party. If you are not a strict advocate of rigid Libertarianism, it can be hard to be heard in the Libertarian Party sometimes.

The Democratic and Republican parties don't ask that of the people who get involved or vote for them. They represent ideas, but not ideology. They are about broad agreement on a few general points, and even then, their candidates can vary.

In a sense, they don't even care if you actually agree with them, as long as you vote for them so they can do what they want to do. This is also why there is a much higher value on the appeal of the candidates in major party politics as well.

Also, the most successful third party movements happened when they were based around a nationally prominent figure, and even those were not ultimately successful.

Finally, once a third party becomes successful, it will likely overtake one of the two parties or one of the two parties will overtake it.
 
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