> If both sides -- those who want a third party and those who want to
> change the Democratic Party -- were well organized, they could forge
> an alliance: divide up districts between them, pledge to support third
> party candidates where that's the best choice, and pledge to support
> left-wing Democrats where that's the best choice. But the thing is
> that neither side is well organized nationwide, so it's impossible to
> create such an electoral pact at this point.
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This is the approach I would also support if I were in the US. It would help
overcome the divide on the US left, which becomes very wide every two years.
There'd be heavy pressure from the DP leadership to prevent this sentiment
from taking hold in the ranks, and equal pressure within the third party
camp(s) from those activists who would not support even the most progressive
Democrat "on principle" or who expect the DP to be supplanted soon. But I
hope this idea is circulating informally within both constituencies.