political parties

Coalition politics in America today

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 10/11/2020 - 3:29pm

If you believe the election hype, either 1) Trump made America great, and if you re-elect him he'll keep making America great, or 2) America was great before Trump, who came out of nowhere to make America a bad thing, and America will be great once again when Joe Biden shows up in January to claim the White House.

A three party congress will almost certainly fail

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:24pm

Many of us have written about the necessity to abandon the two party system in favor of a multiparty system. Although a parliamentary system would be superior to the current set-up, providing it wasn't a duopoly, even a three-party system would most likely. This is a matter of simple arithmetic and past history. The Senate is easier to analyze for a few reasons. First, 100 is an easy number to deal, certainly handier than 435.

Should the Green Party be replaced?

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 08/21/2016 - 1:14pm

It's beginning to look unlikely that Jill Stein will merit 5% of the vote this year. This reality shouldn't keep us from trying, though. The question on my mind, however, is one of whether or not the Green Party needs to be replaced with some other party, or a new party, capable of challenging the Democratic Party in the election cycles ahead.

Political Parties are anachronisms and stand in the way of progress. That's why I'm supporting Jill Stein and the Green Party in 2016.

Submitted by BayAreaLefty on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 10:20am

I wrote an essay some time ago, Election reform and voter rights: a legislative agenda, in which the first two paragraphs read:

The Declaration of Political Independence 2016

Submitted by poligirl on Mon, 07/04/2016 - 3:05am

(My apologies to Thomas Jefferson)

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the citizen long guaranteed by our Constitution, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to that separation.

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Revolutionary Violence: A Practical Matter

Submitted by MrJayTee on Sun, 06/19/2016 - 5:17pm

When you mention revolution, most people’s thoughts tend to scenarios that begin with pitchforks, proceed to guillotines, and end up in the Gulag. No doubt there are revolutions that have ended badly, betraying the people for whom they were putatively staged and directing violence at them rather than the overseers of the regime that made revolution necessary.

Toward a No Party System, Part 1: Party Power is Problematic

Submitted by BayAreaLefty on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 6:04pm

Here's a fact: progressives are a minority in the Democratic Party. Or, at least, a minority of its voters. This is true for a variety of reasons that are far too many and too complicated to fit inside a single blog post. It's a great way to start a related conversation, though: moving on from traditional party machine politics.

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