Now: Let’s remember how coalitions work in countries with many active, viable parties: Parties make coalitions. But the Prime Ministers are usually still a member of one of the two (sometimes three) big parties. Since 1935, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, for example, has either been from the Conservative or the Labour party.

I would suggest that people who support or are involved with third parties start to work together and gain strength at the local levels.

Right now, with so much at stake, I see third party presidential candidates as almost traitorous. Jill Stein, for example, talks about a 30% reduction in defense. As budgets have to start in the House of Representatives, how in the world would she possibly get even a 2% reduction in defense? Who would support her in anything? And it’s going to be hard enough, with these Republicans around, to keep the automatic defense cuts that were negotiated as part of last year’s debt ceiling mess. Why does she think she could do any better than Obama in dealing with this Congress?

And, unless all of the Democrats work like the blazes and get elected, the next Congress won’t be much better. She calls herself a “genuine champion of the working people”. Oh, please.. If she gets more than a few votes here and there, this champion of the working people could throw the election to Romney. And if she really feels that “Obama is just a servant of Wall Street” (despite the big bucks pouring to Romney), she has her head up her rear and is really too clueless to be President of the local block club much less Prez of this country.

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