Americas Elect 2012 - the Not Party

[merithyn]

Has anyone heard of this movement? What are the chances that it will continue and grow beyond 2012? I like the idea, but I question it's longevity.

http://www.americanselect.org/

[Ideologue]

I would put country before party.

This is a Shakespeare reference, right?

[Fate]

 

The system works. Why change it?

[Josephus]

We all know how well a president that doesn't have party support in Congress works.

[Capetan Mihali]

I'd rather elect a party than a president, really.

[Ideologue]

Which party?

[Capetan Mihali]

Which party?

Let's just say it would enjoy the support of roughly 11% of Americans.

[Valmy]

Let's just say it would enjoy the support of roughly 11% of Americans.

The Black Panther Party?

[Capetan Mihali]

Let's just say it would enjoy the support of roughly 11% of Americans.

The Black Panther Party?

Hell yes. 



"If elected, I will introduce legislation designed to off the pigs.  Thank you ladies and gentlemen." 

[Ideologue]

Which party?

Let's just say it would enjoy the support of roughly 11% of Americans.

[fhdz]

Communism is sooooooooo 20th century.

[The Brain]

Communism is sooooooooo 20th century.

So is not championing the systematic use of torture. Point?

[Ideologue]

Communism is sooooooooo 20th century.

So was a middle class.

[Capetan Mihali]

21st Century =

[fhdz]

Communism is sooooooooo 20th century.

So was a middle class.

There's still a middle class. It's in trouble, but it's there. Communism is one of those very modernist, very 20th-century throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater kinds of solutions. It's an imaginary fix for a real set of problems, just like libertarianism. Communism is a pink unicorn shitting rainbows. It's an ass that fits comfortably on your head when you don't want to think about the messy business of possible solutions, compromises, and, you know, real life. I'm so sick of magical-kingdom economics on both ends of the spectrum. What a distraction from reality.