I have been watching the Rosevelt’s by Ken Burns on PBS.
T R is said to have mistakenly said at the beginning he wolud serve out the first term and run only once again. He regretted that decision but the Republicans reminded him of it and did not nominate him for a third term.He was rejected. Being young and full of himself, he formed the bull moose party and ran, campaigning heavily and losing support all along the way. Money promised and governor support dwindled. He lost.
The lesson is that in the USA third parties are a losing proposition. There are other near identical results of well minded exuberant efforts that flop and fail.
The conservative tendency is to be agin. They have narrow strong opinions that are pro something but are different among different cliques. Even rather trivial attributes get the candidate the boot. “ He said blah blah blah and that means I’m agin em” is the foolish attitude. It is so ingrained it can not be overcome by reason. It is emotion.
What is required is a charismatic silver tongued smoothie that can charm the women and satisfy the men. So far there has been no such candidate since W.
The lesson is that in the USA third parties are a losing proposition.
But it matters not to me. I consider the R’s and D’s to be the two sides of the same coin. And the mess they have BOTH put us in is more than either of them can get us out of. This whole thing - and I’m talking about the world, not just the US - is unravelling before our very eyes. To use a tired but accurate analogy, we’re trying to vote in a new captain and crew on the titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg. But the comical part is that we are selecting the candidates from the EXISTING captain and crew.
There is no human solution to this. We are falling. We will fall to the bottom.
Watch this video. The child is not our children. The child is us. We are there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0no7O9zmE