VI wrote:Voting third party is the definition of doing nothing. People voting third party are more interested in their precious little conscience than making a decision.
This current political situation in the US disproves that.
The right flank of the Republicans were damned close to going to a third party TEA Party. The GOP, instead, took a rightward turn and absorbed the potential dissidents. The result has been the Republican Party forced to take seriously positions that Ike claimed were "stupid," and dangerous for America, and Bush 41 becoming a Democrat.
So the threat of a third party forced the Republicans to be that party. Let's look what it did to the Democrats:
The Democrats happily moved to the right, as they had been doing, and became a comfortable place for Bushs and Eisenhowers. That is to say, it's become a center-right party.
The left flank for the Democrats, this time, rallied to Bernie and the party had to concede in order to stop its left from going third party. But even then, the left typically simply does not vote when they don't like the platform, which allows the Democrat snakes to move to the right. Or they hold their nose and vote for the lesser of two evils, again allowing a snake to the right.
The structure, then, are TEA Baggers leading a congo-line to fascism and people reluctantly falling in line, "to help."
The only thing that will stop it, constitutionally, will be to apply the legitimate threat of third parties on the left to stop the moderates and social democrats from compromising their way to the right.
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