All the frustration in the world doesn’t change math. And the math always says third parties just hand power to your worst enemies. It is no more complicated to understand than 2+2. But the base of both parties is constantly trying to get to a new party that will represent their views.
Every political party is a coalition of disparate groups who conspire together to get 51% of the vote and then fight each other for what to with the power.
Any other vision is at best...charming.
Amen!! Ain’t no other way—impossible. No matter what, they’d absolutely need the votes of all Republicans we already have. This is just a unrealistic pipedream.
Doesn't matter much when your "worst enemies" are in both camps. 2 liberal Democrats plus 2 liberal Republicans equals 4 liberals.
But the base of both parties is constantly trying to get to a new party that will represent their views.
Oh? Looks to me like the Democrats are being represented pretty accurately. Shoot, they've even got the Communist Party USA on board.
But, in any case, one only needs to read down through this thread, or have any faint awareness of the political lay of the land, to understand that few conservatives in the Republican Party believe now that they are being represented.
Every political party is a coalition of disparate groups who conspire together to get 51% of the vote and then fight each other for what to with the power. Any other vision is at best...charming.
Well, putting aside the bleakness of a "vision" based solely on conspiratorial, factional political warfare, again, it's obvious that few groups in the current GOP believe they are being well-represented. So, your whole paradigm means nothing in the real world.