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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Katha:
>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.

I'm not at all supporting the Buchanan/Fulani combo, neither of whom is a
friend of the working class.  I'm just wondering if left third party
efforts (the Labor Party, the Greens, etc.) have any sort of political
strategy to break the two-party system.  Nathan seems to think they don't,
and I'm inclined to agree with him.  In fact, as far as the Labor Party is
concerned, I'm not even sure if it wants to be an independent political
party or just a pressure group vainly trying to move the Dems to the left.

Yoshie