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Political Science Professor Ernest Evans’ Column on Usefulness of Minor Parties in U.S. History — 6 Comments

  1. Nothing new about Professor Evans’ column. American Government and Civics textbooks in schools have often pointed this out.

    Too bad he seemed to not have any knowledge of the Prohibition Party which advocated for many of the reforms other 3rd parties have championed, and the fact the Prohibition Party is the oldest 3rd party of continuous existence in the United States today.

  2. How many MORON polisci and law profs are there ???

    The ENTIRE system in the USA is rotted to its EVIL gerrymander core —
    the worse and worse gerrymander monarchs and oligarchs DESTROYING the USA with their control freak laws — UN-declared wars, insane annual deficits, insane national, state and local debts, etc.


    Regardless of ALL of the MORONS —

    P.R. and App. V.

  3. Where did Evans get the idea that the Democratic Party’s rightward movement ended after the 2000 election? If that’s true at all, you have to have a micrometer to measure it.

  4. Bob Richard:

    “Where did Evans get the idea that the Democratic Party’s rightward movement ended after the 2000 election?”

    I thought the same thing. This Evans guy must be a liberal. This is the way Liberals think. They have this Orwellian idea that somehow they have the right to re-define political definitions.

    I used to get sick and tired of hearing the media refer to Bill Clinton as a “centrist.”

    This is why they get away with calling conservatives “extremists” or “right-wingers.”

    And of course populists like myself, are called “crackpots.”

    Just take it with a grain of salt and prepare yourself for the future. It’s all part of tomorrow’s political correctness which the Liberals have been anointed to enforce.

  5. That, and the failure to mention the Prohibition Party are perhaps the only two blots on the piece. Otherwise, it is one of the better defenses of third parties I have read outside of websites like Ballot Access News. It is rare indeed for the news media to favorably point out the part of our nation’s electoral history (pre-1950’s) that the Democrats and Republicans would obviously rather stay hidden, for it tends to contradict the “spoiler theory”.

  6. Spoilers can make the major parties start paying attention to issues they are ignoring.

    But when there is too much spoiling, the Democrats go for the Top Two to put an end to such nonsense.

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