Let's have a 4 candidate general election

[BernieforPres2016]

The Republican strategy now, voiced by Romney today, is for Cruz, Rubio and Kasich to stay in the race all the way to deny Trump a majority of delegates going into the convention. (Romney advocated that anti-Trump people vote for Rubio in Florida, Kasich in Ohio, Cruz in states where he is the strongest candidate other than Trump). Then the Republican establishment can pick somebody other than Trump as their nominee, perhaps somebody who didn't even run.

If this happens, Trump will likely run for President as an independent. He may even bolt the party before the convention.

We've seen how the DNC and the rest of the Democratic establishment has stacked the deck to make Hillary the Democratic nominee.

We know both major parties are owned by the top 0.1%.

So let's have a general election with Bernie (perhaps with the Green Party), Hillary, a mainstream Republican and Trump. It would be 4 ring circus that would end up in the House of Representatives (because no candidate would get an electoral college majority), and would show both parties just how disgusted the American public is with them. I think it would be a good first step towards the political revolution Bernie is talking about.

[yodermon]

1. NO way. do not interrupt your enemy when they are busy fucking themselves.

If they are really going to go 3rd party or some other chicanery, we need 1 and only 1 candidate in the general. Don't mess with a free white house handed to us on a platter.

[BernieforPres2016]

7. Handed to "us"?

A Democratic Party led by Hillary isn't "us" as far as I'm concerned.

[Rebkeh]

2. Agreed, when your opponent is mid-process of losing,

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Do not interrupt them.

(oops, this was supposed to be a response to yoderman in comment #1)

[MoonchildCA]

3. So, who's the fourth?

I mean, the democrats should probably run someone too...





Sorry, couldn't resist.

[SheenaR]

4. In the minority

But I agree with the premise

Blow this whole thing open. Start from scratch...

"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

TJ had it right

[sarge43]

5. The president decided by a Repug controlled House?

The Democrats aren't taking back the House, not this year anyway.

A house that's half whack jobs and half corporate shills. Sanders' and Clinton's names wouldn't even come up, let alone be considered.

So, for the country that would be choice of the electric chair or drawing and quartering.

If you think either party establishment gives a rodent's backside about the opinion of the American people, you haven't been paying attention.

Finally, revolutions tend to be bloody, brutal affairs that most of the time result only in a change of names, otherwise business as usual.

If we have to game the system to succeed, we're no different than the opposition.

[BernieforPres2016]

6. I said neither party establishment cares about the American public

That's why it's time to show them that their oligopoly is coming to an end.

[xynthee]

8. Bernie has already promised not to run as a spoiler

Which is too damn bad, because I think he'd be kicking ass right now if the fucking democrats weren't doing everything in their power to stop him.

[BernieforPres2016]

10. He's also said he's starting a political movement

So we'll see which way he goes if he doesn't become the Democratic nominee. If he breaks off, I will be with him and make contributions on an ongoing basis.

[xynthee]

12. Yes, I could totally forgive him for flip-flopping on that!! NT

[stillwaiting]

9. Let's have 4 political Parties. Or more.

It's time.

[BernieforPres2016]

11. I agree, neither the Democratic or Republican Party leaders are going to surrender power

and stop this government of the 0.1%.