Can we learn how to turn down power lust and the need to control?

[Peter1469]

Those barriers would be eliminated or rendered irrelevant if these alternative parties attracted serious minded candidates.

I think they are two separate unrelated issues.

[Tahuyaman]

I think they are two separate unrelated issues.

I believe they are absolutely connected.


If the third and fourth parties consistently ran serious candidates, they would poll better than 3 or 4 percent.

People put too much blame for the failures of others on the two major parties.

[The Xl]

The country is run mostly by sociopaths and psychopaths that are proxies to even bigger psychopaths who buy them off.

[Peter1469]

If the third and fourth parties consistently ran serious candidates, they would poll better than 3 or 4 percent.

What about the state laws that make it very hard for 3rd parties to get onto the ballot?

[Tahuyaman]

What about the state laws that make it very hard for 3rd parties to get onto the ballot?

That would change quickly if they put up serious candidates.

[Peter1469]

That would change quickly if they put up serious candidates.

It will take much more than that.

[Tahuyaman]

It will take much more than that.

I disagree. Put up serious candidates which attract support and things will change quickly.

[Mini Me]

[donttread]

What about the state laws that make it very hard for 3rd parties to get onto the ballot?

Or the financial stranglehold the "unholy two" have on political funding?