On a Third Party, September 4, 2010

Perhaps voting Green is the answer. Certainly they have a very impressive platform:
http://www­.gp.org/pl­atform/200­4/

But more fundamentally, until the system is changed to give third parties a chance, instead of reducing them to spoilers ala Mr Nader, it's unlikely we'll ever see a viable third party.

Of course, neither party today will support changes to the system, since it's the current structure that keeps them in power. We would need a sustained, grass roots effort to get corporate money out of elections and to get rid of FPTP.

I wish I could be optimistic that this would ever happen.