Quote:I just wish there were a better 3rd party candidate.  A Ross Perot in this day and age could have had a decent chance.

 

Nope.

 

Regardless of truth, far too many are sticking with their girl.  In today's climate, leaving the D when logic dictates will never happen for most that are religiously faithful to the D.

 

Any significant third party would only serve to give the D a permanence.  The irony being a strong third party would effectively turn us into a single party despotism.

 

There is no independent thought within the vast majority of the D party, and rarely do they appeal to the independent voter.

 

Just look at the independent vote Trump has been able to pull.

 

If the party formerly known as Republican were to have that loyalty rate, this race would have been a landslide for him.

 

The D saw that strength in solidarity when they were handed their butts to them in 1994.  The GWB win in 2000 caused it to go nuclear.  The D party had nearly dissolved, but once they stopped pitching their ideas and started smear attacking the R party - they turned it around.  They found strength in stopping the fighting amongst themselves and turning that energy against what they considered their "enemy," and finally found a message they could sell that worked - since the R was ignorant to the strategy of smear.  They assumed they would simply continue winning the battle of ideas by sticking to substance and not engage or fight back the personal attacks.

 

Well, now the tables have turned.  Hopefully they will realize they were wrong not to fight back, and that superior ideas alone no longer win as they once did.  The misinformation and dirty attacks must be fought back against.

 

If not, the D will bully their way to a permanence to the detriment of our nation.

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