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haele

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16. They best start at local levels. Otherwise, they're just shit-stirrers like the Greens.

Wed Jul 27, 2022, 07:28 PM

Jul 2022

Every single successful political party in the US after around 1820 started at the local level. An most never got much past the local level, at that.

If a third party is eager to position itself only at the national level, without any actual policy or governance track record they can point to, then they're just playing spoiler to a mainstream political party.

The occasional Bernie Saunders or Angus King type is not the sign of strong national third parties. They are particular representations to those states or localities they come from.

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Former Republicans and Democrats to form new third U.S. political party [View all] JoanofArgh Jul 2022 OP

Has Andrew Yang ever done us any good? calguy Jul 2022 #1

No. He's more interested in getting attention than actually helping this JoanofArgh Jul 2022 #6

Agree 100% calguy Jul 2022 #20

Yang. I expect nothing less of him. AllyCat Jul 2022 #2

Ugh mchill Jul 2022 #3

Double ugh. FalloutShelter Jul 2022 #5

Yay Mad_Machine76 Jul 2022 #4

Yang is as big a narcissist as Trump, Musk, etc. W_HAMILTON Jul 2022 #7

Yang Mad_Machine76 Jul 2022 #10

+1 JoanofArgh Jul 2022 #12

Yes, sore loser Yang can't seem to understand that... brush Jul 2022 #8

+1 Great point! JoanofArgh Jul 2022 #19

Mr Yang like every narcissist: Vote only for me Tetrachloride Jul 2022 #9

Bet it is funded by the right. applegrove Jul 2022 #11

You know it. Yang is such a disappointment. brush Jul 2022 #26

You'd win that bet for sure. comradebillyboy Jul 2022 #28

+1, uponit7771 Jul 2022 #39

Great! If they can just rope in Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, then the crew will be complete! NBachers Jul 2022 #13

Those folks are voter repellant. comradebillyboy Jul 2022 #29

When it comes to the Electoral College: a third party... davepdx Jul 2022 #14

Is Yang really a Dem? onecaliberal Jul 2022 #15

No WA-03 Democrat Jul 2022 #18

I mean I know he ran on the ticket, but what is his history? onecaliberal Jul 2022 #24

They best start at local levels. Otherwise, they're just shit-stirrers like the Greens. haele Jul 2022 #16

They're trying to spoil for Dems. onecaliberal Jul 2022 #23

Oh, sigh... paging the ghosts of Ross Perot and John Anderson. Ralph Nader to the front desk... n/t TygrBright Jul 2022 #17

I bet they can polish up some leftover Lyndon LaRouche turds for a twelfth shot at the Oval Office. NBachers Jul 2022 #21

Will its candidates take corporate dark money? vlyons Jul 2022 #22

Political parties don't work when formed from the top. There is no base. LiberalFighter Jul 2022 #25

+1 JoanofArgh Jul 2022 #27

No sizzle, no steak. BlueIdaho Jul 2022 #30

Look at the election of 1912. roamer65 Jul 2022 #31

Another "no party" redux PSPS Jul 2022 #32

one suspects a republican front group is forming,, not a third party nt msongs Jul 2022 #33

+1 JoanofArgh Jul 2022 #34

"Dozens of former officials in the Republican administrations of" Reagan, Bush 41 & 43, Trump Midnight Writer Jul 2022 #35

Alan Colmes LOL! JoanofArgh Jul 2022 #36

The devil is in the details. Define centrist. Let's see those policies Raven123 Jul 2022 #37

This is Bullshit and will only help the Fascists. texasfiddler Jul 2022 #38

This sounds very Republican lite Farmer-Rick Jul 2022 #40

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