Stompy, your asking some very fair, and extremely valid question. I like that. It shows that you're not completely dismissive. I'll try to answer as best as I can.
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Let me ask you this: What do you think it will take for a 3rd party to become widely recognized? Do you think it will happen eventually?
Being that all the media in this country is controlled through only SIX corporations, those parties never get any coverage whatsoever. Would it take a law on the part of the dem/repub. parties to regulate media or..
I guess what I'm trying to ask is, how are they going about trying to gain influence in our current political system? They have a lot of great ideas, but it just seems like no one is paying enough attention. Everyone is so caught up in the dem/rep parties.
If I believed that Nader had a chance of winning, I'd vote for him, but I'm really having a hard time trying to convince myself that it's not a wasted vote. Maybe one day I'll think differently, but for now... hard to do.
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Media coverage. Pure and simple. It's out of sight...out of mind. The Libertarian Party is larger, by far, than all of the other so called 3rd parties...combined. Yet, all we seem to hear is Nader Nader Nader. Libertarians can't
buy airtime. Why is that? For that matter...why won't Republicans or Democrats debate a Libertarian? The reason, I believe, is that while Nader is no threat to either of the two major parties. The Libertarian Party, on the other hand,...is. The Libertarian Party has had remarkable growth just within the past decade. And, believe it or not, Libertarians are gaining a foothold in city and state elections countrywide. So...yes, I honestly do believe that, in the near future, the Libertarians are going to break in and take some federal elections.