The state parties are not government. They are parties, with their duly appointed leadership and processes. I'm not particularly sympathetic to people who both...
A. Run as member of a party, and...
B. Don't try to either ingratiate themselves with the party and/or take the whole fucking thing over.
I have a great deal of respect for people who DO try to storm the gates and take a state party over. I've seen it happen before, with the Paulites in Iowa. It's beautiful when it happens.
Robby Starbuck strikes me as someone who's too lazy and impatient to build a coalition, and too much of an idealistic outsider to play with the team he has to work with today.
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.
I'm not really seeing the problem here.
The state parties are not government. They are parties, with their duly appointed leadership and processes. I'm not particularly sympathetic to people who both...
A. Run as member of a party, and...
B. Don't try to either ingratiate themselves with the party and/or take the whole fucking thing over.
I have a great deal of respect for people who DO try to storm the gates and take a state party over. I've seen it happen before, with the Paulites in Iowa. It's beautiful when it happens.
Robby Starbuck strikes me as someone who's too lazy and impatient to build a coalition, and too much of an idealistic outsider to play with the team he has to work with today.
I would entirely agree with you if there weren’t two parties with an effective monopoly on the political process.
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.