I'm okay with bigthink.com . If I had any objection to it, it would be that it gives the impression that philosophy is some sort of "big think," whereas in real life philosophy is an activity on the order of rubbing your belly or going for a walk. Philosophy, then, like rubbing your belly or going for a walk, is a reaction to conditions.
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Tulsi Gabbard had always seemed to me like the rare exception to the rule.
In New York the Democratic Party's chairman is pushing forward a bill that would make it more difficult for third parties to get candidates on the ballot.
The flaws in the "spoiler" narrative have a lot of "tells".
The People's Convergence had their um, convergence, last weekend. A couple reports follow, one from the Green Party, one from the World Socialist website.
(Link to People's Convergence website - http://convergence2017.org/)
Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report takes down Bernie Sanders and the Democratic party in his recent article, "Why Bernie Sanders is an Imperialist Pig". First he rightly places the Democratic party as the "Warmonger-in-Chief political institution in the United States at this historical juncture" because of the "orchestrated propaganda blitzkrieg against Russia by the Democratic Party.
It's now well-known that many prominent Republicans are lining up to back Her over The Donald "Nuke 'Em" Drumpf. This linked list -about the latest I can find- doesn't include former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, who recently announced that she supports Her as well.
In the last day or two I've watched a couple of broadcasts on Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/ about the current election and third parties.
