~ From a very insightful blogger by the handle of Crustybastard ~
(you might want to cover your eyes if the language bothers you, but if you don't, you might actually learn something very insightful about how politics really works in this county)
His delightful blog can be found at: http://thecrustybastard.blogspot.com/
by "the crustybastard"
[The original post was addressed to a poster by the handle of "Spike" on Queerty]
@Spike:
The purpose of third-parties is not necessarily to get the third-party candidate elected (although that might be nice.) The purpose of third-parties is to create a correcting force on an unresponsive major party.
For example, Ross Perot’s nontrivial support from the electorate derived principally from fiscally conservative “classical republicans” who had the sense to recognize that Mr. Perot was correct that the short-term job destruction caused by “free-trade agreements” would lead to a long-term economic downturn caused by toxic unemployment, which would lead to massive housing devaluation, which would lead to lender-hoarding, which would lead to prolonged stagflation.
You know — the perfect shitstorm we’ve been wallowing in since 2008?
Oh, and — having evidently not learned a goddam thing — the current president is promoting yet more “free-trade agreements,” because despite the fact that none of those treaties has ever failed to weaken the American job market and depress wages, this one will surely be the key to employment and economic recovery…this time.
::eyeroll::
Likewise, Ralph Naders’ nontrivial support from the electorate derived principally from socially liberal progressives who had the sense to recognize that Mr. Nader was correct that Democrats were doing nothing to rein in the runaway power of corporate oligarchs and the military-industrial complex who seem determined to convert the middle-class into impoverished serfs desperate for any opportunity…even the opportunity to be a bullet-sponge.
You know — the perfect shitstorm we’ve been wallowing in since 2001?
Oh, and — having evidently not learned a goddam thing — the current president has bent over backwards to accommodate and guarantee the ongoing expansion of corporate and the military power because, besides inevitable relentless fascism, what could possibly go wrong in a country where the military and private corporations are the principle forces determining public policy?
::eyeroll::
I realize that [a] steadfast partisan streak makes it difficult to understand that some issues are more complex than “blue side good, red side bad!”
But you might at least fucking try once in a while.
(c) the crustybastard, 2011
(the original post can be found at: http://www.queerty.com/breaking-obama-supports-doma-repeal-20110719/)
