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In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High

3 points by DocFeind 13y ago

memracom 13y ago
So what are you waiting for? Gather your friends together and start a new political party. Don't worry about whether or not you will ultimately succeed or whether your party is big enough. Just get organized and adopt a platform that is open to compromise, and is ready for merger with some other party. If enough people do this, and then negotiate a merger with other small parties, the sum total of all these efforts merged together will be big enough to mount a serious challenge in state and federal elections. Just remember, that the goal of doing this is not to get your opinions enshrined in laws, but to negotiate and compromise and build a party that is large enough, inclusive enough and has enough heart, that it can represent a majority of the American people. Only such a party can beat the elephant and the donkey at their old game. You need an octopus party that has many arms and which brings together many interest groups. But most importantly, you need to do this now. Get some friends together, organize some meetings, and ask everyone why they would not join a political party that stands for compromise, inclusion, and a big heart.
memracom 13y ago
Oh, and there are some simple guides to forming a new political party out there on the Internet such as this one. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_new_political_party_in_the_United_States http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_new_political_p... Just don't go into it with a big head, delusions of grandeur, and a goal of winning. This will not work unless thousands of people form small local parties, then negotiate with other small parties to find common ground and merge into fewer larger parties. In the process, everything will change, and the people involved will exercise their compromise and negotiating muscles so much, that they are unlikely to hold the same opinions that they started out with. But that is how political movements are formed and that is how a real democratic party works. Charismatic leaders are an interesting short cut, but historically that route seems to always lead to tears in the end. P.S. also read some of Saul Alinsky's books.
a3n 13y ago
You don't need to start a new party to start undermining the Repugnicrats. At every election, vote any existing 3rd party. If you want a new party, go ahead and do whatever that takes, but while that's going on, vote anything but Dem or Rep. If you're dissatisfied, it's much better to vote against the two parties, which counts (however small), rather than not vote which concentrates their apparent approval. Dilute.

3 points by DocFeind 13y ago

So what are you waiting for? Gather your friends together and start a new political party. Don't worry about whether or not you will ultimately succeed or whether your party is big enough. Just get organized and adopt a platform that is open to compromise, and is ready for merger with some other party. If enough people do this, and then negotiate a merger with other small parties, the sum total of all these efforts merged together will be big enough to mount a serious challenge in state and federal elections. Just remember, that the goal of doing this is not to get your opinions enshrined in laws, but to negotiate and compromise and build a party that is large enough, inclusive enough and has enough heart, that it can represent a majority of the American people. Only such a party can beat the elephant and the donkey at their old game. You need an octopus party that has many arms and which brings together many interest groups. But most importantly, you need to do this now. Get some friends together, organize some meetings, and ask everyone why they would not join a political party that stands for compromise, inclusion, and a big heart.

memracom 13y ago

Oh, and there are some simple guides to forming a new political party out there on the Internet such as this one. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_new_political_party_in_the_United_States http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_new_political_p... Just don't go into it with a big head, delusions of grandeur, and a goal of winning. This will not work unless thousands of people form small local parties, then negotiate with other small parties to find common ground and merge into fewer larger parties. In the process, everything will change, and the people involved will exercise their compromise and negotiating muscles so much, that they are unlikely to hold the same opinions that they started out with. But that is how political movements are formed and that is how a real democratic party works. Charismatic leaders are an interesting short cut, but historically that route seems to always lead to tears in the end. P.S. also read some of Saul Alinsky's books.

a3n 13y ago

You don't need to start a new party to start undermining the Repugnicrats. At every election, vote any existing 3rd party. If you want a new party, go ahead and do whatever that takes, but while that's going on, vote anything but Dem or Rep. If you're dissatisfied, it's much better to vote against the two parties, which counts (however small), rather than not vote which concentrates their apparent approval. Dilute.