Final paragraph:
The vast majority of Americans will have more than two names on their presidential ballot, as has reliably been the case for most of my lifetime. If major parties and their enthusiasts in the press and academia want to dissuade voters from supporting minor candidates, then they should consider taking heed of their nominees’ massive unfavorability ratings, rather than accusing free individuals exercising their franchise of ushering in American fascism.
Here is the entire article.
That’s well taken
The one gripe I have about this article is its presumption that the Green Party won’t be on more state ballots than it already currently is. We Greens are known for pulling off miracles when it comes to ballot access, even in the face of the strongest of unDemocratic Party lawyers last year in North Carolina. Ballot access petitioning isn’t even legally able to begin in many states until next year, and is ongoing in a number of others. I predict Cornel West will be on in 40+ state ballots due to hard work petitioning and West exciting quite a few more people with his candidacy than Hawkins did.
But still, I am glad to see an editorial/news article defend the Constitutional and human right of people to participate in our country’s electoral system as third party supporters and candidates.
Joshua H. if the Green split the commie vote from the Democrats I am for it.
American fascism, on the Quisling model, is actually what Biden, Harris, and the rest of their gang are ushering in. They don’t really want to allow a second party, especially if it takes meaningful differences with their core issues, much less a third. They steal elections like third world despots. Only the persistent lie that fascism is right wing keeps more people from seeing that. Biden is way closer to fascist than Trump is.
I linked a Britannica capsule biography of Quisling. Apparently that’s not allowed here.
The biggest differences between Quisling and Biden that jump out are that Quisling served in the military and wasn’t geriatric with senile dementia while in office. Otherwise they are quite similar. Both are fascist traitors.
Here’s the original 1919 program of the Fascist Party. It’s available in both Italian and English if there are any questions of translation. Does not sound right wing to me.
http://web.tiscalinet.it/regno76/testi/manifesti/Il%20manifesto%20dei%20fasci%20di%20combattimento.htm
Does anyone know for the 3rd parties how many states they are qualified for 2024? In the past it was always posted on this website.
Scroll down to presidential petitioning at https://ballot-access.org/2023/06/28/June-2023-ballot-access-news-print-edition/
HOW MUCH 1919 ITALY STUFF COPIED BY 1919-1921 HITLER NAZI STUFF [ AND LATER AMERICAN NAZI FOLKS ] ???
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APPV- PENDING CONDORCET = RCV DONE RIGHT
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ON THIS DAY IN 1944, SOME *GOOD* GERMANS TRIED TO KILL HITLER –
FAILED- ANOTHER MAJOR PURGE
GERMANY DOWN IN FLAMES TO MAY 1945 – PERHAPS 5-10 MILLION MORE DEAD ???
Glad to see the coverage of Justin Amash. I hope that he is nominated by the Libertarian Party.
Many (all?) alternative parties are really blinded by presidential campaigns. The Congress is where the duopoly is most despised, but alternative party candidates for Congress or state legislatures are not given serious attention by their party.
Okay, maybe this election cycle Trump and Biden are despised as much as Congress.
DESPISE A-L-L MONARCHS AND OLIGARCHS — DEVIL TOOLS OF SLAVERY / DEATH / DESTRUCTION
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P-A-T
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/07/21/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-extremism-reforms/70429571007/
The military ordered big steps to stop extremism. Two years later, it shows no results
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NOOO mention of 1 Amdt in story.
How many T-O-P extremists in USA regime – Pentagon, Military Academies, commands, units ???
Are not extremists what EVERY military force loves. ??
— folks ready to follow orders and kill *enemies* to get POLITICAL CONTROL of foreign enemy regimes / domestic opponents ???
USA TODAY IS FAKE NEWS!
Jim’s point about Gary Johnson and New Hampshire is correct, but could extend to more states than that. Johnson covered the spread of Hillary over Trump in Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Maine. The magnitude of the numbers isn’t as great as those in New Hampshire, but the same point could be made. If Hillary is going to be a sore loser and blaime Jill Stein for her loss, she should at least acknowledge that if it weren’t for Johnson, her Electoral College loss would have been far worse
Covering the spread is only enough if we posit the second choice of all of them was the state runner up, which is not a realistic assumption.
No surprise loser Whitfield wants commie Amash to run for President. Maybe he can dig up Bill Weld to run for VP again.
Amash is a man whose time has passed. Nobody cares about a former member of the House running with a third party (see Virgil Goode, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, etc). They barely care about a current member. He had his chance in 2020 and didn’t take it. Buh bye.