Third Parties (was RE: Fulani's endorsement of Buchanan)

[Katha Pollitt]

Yoshie,
So the left has to support a third party whose major figures are a joke
(Donald Trump? Pat buchanan? ross Perot?) in order to make space for a
fourth party that would actually represent its own politics? That seems
like an awfully roundabout way of doing things. 

  The thing about the new Alliance Party is that they're a scam, a
therapy cult.  Elections are the way they recruit new members and (they
hope) get their hands on public-campaign dollars.  The Village Voice,
much pooh-poohed on this list for being "boring," did a very good expose
of them a few years ago, if memory serves.

Katha