Tell Me Once More Progressives That Hillary and the WLB are "The Same"

[Rev. Rye]

I'm a Progressive and like Bernie I saw that despite her flaws she would have been much better than Trump.

Now it would be nice however if 3rd parties were an option.

Me too.

Ian Hislop of Private Eye once said "Well, you have the Democrats, who are right wing, the Republican party who are very right wing, and the Tea Party, who are mad."  And, yet, when a third party rises to power, it tends to split the vote.

The last time a third party gained enough traction to actually win a state (except for 1968's George Wallace, 1948's Strom Thurmond, and 1924's Robert LaFollette, the first two because of a specific focus on the South that Northern voters wouldn't have given a shit about, and the third because he was a beloved senator and governor in the one state he won.) 1912, Teddy Roosevelt split from the Republican party, and this led to the Republican vote being split between two candidates, Roosevelt and Taft. If not for that split, Woodrow Wilson wouldn't have won the presidency. Then again, given that Wilson, despite his blatant racism and his tendency to throw dissenters in jail (just ask Eugene V. Debs), is still ranked as one of the better presidents, and Taft was generally considered to be fair-to-middling, this might not have been much of a loss.

And remember when a couple votes from progressives thrown Ralph Nader's way in Florida (at least, that's what people say) led to Dubya getting elected?

Therefore, we're stuck with this bullshit system. And it's actually considered a law in political science.