Third parties have always been a waste of time in America. The reason why we seem to get a Uniparty most of the time is due to the kinds of people who want power. Most of them are the kind of person you would least likely want to give any power to. It is only when it reaches the point where the man who just wanted to be left alone becomes angry enough to run that good change happens.
**Third parties have always been a waste of time in America.**
Nader did us a big favor-made the difference. The idea is to not let them on the debate stage.
3rd parties fail in the US because we are not structurally set up for them to succeed. We are not a parliamentary system we are an executive winner take all system. If 3rd, 4th, etc parties bring anything to the table worth anything a major part adopts and absorbs the more rational members of the 3rd, etc party.
Everything political in the US is an argument between stronger centralized government at the expense of the states or stronger state at the expense of the central government.
Every political argument and issue!
3rd parties fail in the US because we are not structurally set up for them to succeed. We are not a parliamentary system we are an executive winner take all system. If 3rd, 4th, etc parties bring anything to the table worth anything a major part adopts and absorbs the more rational members of the 3rd, etc party.
Everything political in the US is an argument between stronger centralized government at the expense of the states or stronger state at the expense of the central government.
Every political argument and issue!
isn’t a third party how the Republicans started? Federalists and Democratic-Republicans, then Democrats and Whigs. It’s only since mid 1850’s that the two main parties were Democrat and Republican.