Xenophon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 11:54 am
The Conservative wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:27 am
Xenophon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:20 am
The Libertarian party is a no-go, for me. The Constitution party is just desperately trying to pretend it's 1790 again. Modern Electoral politics are the problem, and voting is the gayest thing you can do with your pants on. The next vote I cast will be on the referendum to abolish voting.
EDIT: I'll add that restricting the vote back to landowning males would solve a lot of this.
The constitution party believes that the Constitution should not be superseded... unlike most parties today.
I know, but they'll be the only ones who think like that. That's a losing strategy, as we've seen. Playing by the rules while everyone else cheats just makes you a principled loser with no power. I'm not in it for symbolic votes because of "muh principles". If the Constitution's Party's platform was, "We take martial law upon winning, during which we investigate and remove anyone with Communist sympathies, and after that we institute a Representative Republic." I'd be on board. We need a Cincinnatus.
You do not need very many constitutionalists in Congress to have a great effect on Congress. You only need enough so that one party can never pass a bill without the support of at least 2 parties.
Right now the biggest failure of the Libertarian Party is it tries to act like the Republicans and Democrats in trying to win in every state. What they really need to do is identify a state where they believe they have the best chance to win, and focus their resources in winning in that state and only putting in the minimum into other states to make sure they keep ballot access. Once they establish a Libertarian stronghold where they are repeatedly winning elections, once they have that example to point to that will open doors to other states.
Realistically, though, I think our best chance for a 3rd party to win would be in Utah. A Mormon based party probably could win a seat or two in the House. If we were lucky that would get people to consider other parties.
I do not have much hope in a Trump party. Not that I do not think it would be unsuccessful, but because it would ultimately just be a split of the Republican party. Ultimately it would either be re-absorbed into the Republican party, or would just end up replacing the Republican party. While that may be an improvement, it ultimately would just be a more aggressive Republican party. What we need is a party that has a strong ideology towards freedom and following the Constitution, that can reign in the other two parties. All they would need is 5-10% of Congress to have a massive affect on Congress.
