The Other Parties
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:01 pm
I wish this was a thread that we actually have a need for...
Andrew Yang is pushing the idea of a third party hard.
Andrew Yang is pushing the idea of a third party hard.
Wasn't the Tea Party just a subset of Republicans?GORDON wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:05 pm Like I've said before, it's too bad the Tea Party got assassinated in the grave. They had a good head of steam going, but people now know 3rd parties will never be allowed to upset the good thing the two big parties have going. The media wings will ensure that.
That's what I thought.TheCatt wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:40 pmWasn't the Tea Party just a subset of Republicans?GORDON wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:05 pm Like I've said before, it's too bad the Tea Party got assassinated in the grave. They had a good head of steam going, but people now know 3rd parties will never be allowed to upset the good thing the two big parties have going. The media wings will ensure that.
They were Constitutionalists. Wanted the government reeled in.TheCatt wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:40 pmWasn't the Tea Party just a subset of Republicans?GORDON wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:05 pm Like I've said before, it's too bad the Tea Party got assassinated in the grave. They had a good head of steam going, but people now know 3rd parties will never be allowed to upset the good thing the two big parties have going. The media wings will ensure that.
This is part of why public entities on the left have painted Libertarians as "batshit insane Republicans". Got to brainwash the flock so they don't go listening to other ideas and opinions.
When people ask me why I quit being a Libertarian, I say "Because I met too many other Libertarians."Leisher wrote: Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:51 pm Someone thought that was a good tweet?
My faith in humanity is dangling by a thread.
The problem is that you don't volunteer for it. Either way it's being forced on you, if you lack systemic power.GORDON wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 12:51 pm As long as you volunteer for it, no problem. Having it forced upon you is bad.
That's a clever way to convey that idea.