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Kurt Schlichter: Stop the Third-Party Insanity
2021-02-01
President Trump recently announced he’ll continue working within the Republican Party, while supporting those politicians who agree with his vision.
[Townhall] Ditching the GOP is a bad idea born of justifiable frustration, and we need to stop being emotional and start being ruthless in our campaign to retake this country from these liberal establishment aspiring fascists. A third party is not the way. It is a bad idea, one that is technically impractical and which is strategically inept. It will lead to disaster. And the Democrats know it, which is why they love this third party palaver. The only thing that makes the tooting likes of Eric Swalwell coo in delight harder than some mediocre Chi Com honeypot is the thought of us conservatives committing ritual suicide by splitting our half of the country in two because some of the 50 percent of Americans in our camp are insufferable sissies.

Let’s look at the big picture. The design of the Constitution essentially mandates a two-party system. A third party has never won the presidency, and one rarely wins legislative seats. Usually, such candidates call themselves "independents," but Democrats know they are really Democrats and understand this is just a ploy to appeal to the suckers.

There is always going to be a party of the left, and a party of the right, with the battle over the middle. A party getting 55 percent of the vote is considered to have won in a landslide. America is that closely divided. For our sins, the party of the right is the Republican Party. And math says we are stuck with it.
Posted by:Bobby

#5  49 Pan does threats so beautifully...
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-01 20:04  

#4  If you don't fix your party, we will.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2021-02-01 09:39  

#3  In order to get a third party we'd first need a second party.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2021-02-01 09:23  

#2  The design of the Constitution essentially mandates a two-party system.

Maybe so, but we have been moving rapidly towards a de facto one-party system; more so since the last election and that is a scary recipe for disaster.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-02-01 08:20  

#1  Then purge yourself of those who work for 'others'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-02-01 06:11  

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