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Regardless of how you feel about the US having a viable third political party you must admit that the prospect is of major concern to the two-party status quo. Which has led me to suspect that the magnitude of fervor being ventilated by the current rep-dem conflict in this country is being actively inflamed and exploited in order to effectively maintain that status quo. And that kind of sucks, if so. I don't like being played for a sucker.
I think the most opportune time for a 3rd party candidate to capture the American imagination is at a time when there is not a lot of imagination capturing going on in the two major parties.
And, uh, well...it seems that time is now.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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