The parties are not deprived of rights simply because the voters choose to make them preeminent.
The US is not actually a two party system. It's a two coalition system, and the right just hasn't gotten the memo.
After Ralph Nader torpedoed Al Gore, the Democrats and Greens (and later the DSA and the Justice Dems) effectively agreed to fight their fight inside the coalition tent.
The Right are only now getting it, that the Libertarians have to fight for control within the coalition, rather than pretending to be outside the coalition. The fact that we have party primaries exposes it. We have a British style confidence and supply and no-compete system, it's just we use different terms like freedom caucus.
I wish the Pirates and Libertarians would accept registering as Republicans and creating "Pirate Caucus" and "Libertarian Caucus" movements instead of continuing to play by old rules that the left doesn't use.
The parties are not deprived of rights simply because the voters choose to make them preeminent.
The US is not actually a two party system. It's a two coalition system, and the right just hasn't gotten the memo.
After Ralph Nader torpedoed Al Gore, the Democrats and Greens (and later the DSA and the Justice Dems) effectively agreed to fight their fight inside the coalition tent.
The Right are only now getting it, that the Libertarians have to fight for control within the coalition, rather than pretending to be outside the coalition. The fact that we have party primaries exposes it. We have a British style confidence and supply and no-compete system, it's just we use different terms like freedom caucus.
I wish the Pirates and Libertarians would accept registering as Republicans and creating "Pirate Caucus" and "Libertarian Caucus" movements instead of continuing to play by old rules that the left doesn't use.