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tpractice wrote:
Business wrote:Discussion please. Can a third party emerge from our biased system?
Answer = Yes. It probably got Bill Clinton elected. Ross Perot received 19% of the popular vote.
Perot is a special case though, he's one of the richest and most well-connected men in the world. Any member of the superwealthy elite can buy a campaign that will get them at least 15% of the vote easily enough. I think the only way the US will ever get a third-party is if one grows organically from the local level, or if one of the big two splits. This whole silly thing of gunning straight for President is a fantasy. Even if it succeeded it would only be a one-off thing and wouldn't change anything fundamental about how the system actually works. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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Dick Cheney's Mechanical Heart wrote:Even if it succeeded it would only be a one-off thing and wouldn't change anything fundamental about how the system actually works. Not necessarily. The system may not be changed immediately but it would open people's eyes to the other options out there. Of course it will never happen that way anyways, unless miraculously, but it would most likely have to be the other way around. We'll need to give third parties more credit and pay attention to what they have to say before one of them makes it to the white house.
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