
Tag: third party wankery

Scott has said much of what needs to be said about Jennifer Roesch’s Jacobin article calling for the “radical left” to break with the Democratic Party. The problems with this article
I would to add to Scott and Erik’s commentary by reporting that Randy Barnett understands the basic voting incentives inherent to a structural two party system. That is all.
I’ll highlight the key word in the key grafs in Politico’s latest drooling about a mythical proactive third party candidacy: Despite their seemingly left-wing orientation, the Occupy Wall
As others have already pointed out, Matt Miller’s latest column will be the worst argument in favor of a third party until whichever of he or Tom Freidman submits the same column next week.
People who see third parties as a solution in the American system naturally tend to speak entirely in evasive gibberish, but I think Matt Miller’s latest plea is a particularly perfect specimen:
- Drama in the Bluegrass!
- Getting the message
- Know when to walk away, and know when to run
- Lamont Dozier
- The post-Hobbs political landscape
- Probably not someone who has been listening to Republicans shriek TREASON! for the past few days
- “Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.”
- Biden meets with historians to discuss perils to democracy
- There’s no room to work with these people
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