A third party is about agreeing on a platform, solidifying your political base, and controlling the money. Voting is just one way you can achieve those aims. There is nothing that says you can't support the candidate from a larger party or even work together.
Sitting down and playing poker with known and proven cheaters is foolish. In the Old West, that's when the shooting usually starts.
This isn't about politics anymore - this is about having our government taken over by foreign interests in addition to having our representatives and courts no longer represent us.
To continue your metaphor, I’m talking about a private table where you know the people you’re playing with, not giving your chips away to someone that is a known hack and proven backstabbing party.
Also you don’t get leverage by walking out of the room, you force them to the table and make them play by the rules. And when they don’t, call them out loudly so everyone in the building knows they are cheaters. Trump was good for that at least.
A third party is about agreeing on a platform, solidifying your political base, and controlling the money. Voting is just one way you can achieve those aims. There is nothing that says you can't support the candidate from a larger party or even work together.
Sitting down and playing poker with known and proven cheaters is foolish. In the Old West, that's when the shooting usually starts.
This isn't about politics anymore - this is about having our government taken over by foreign interests in addition to having our representatives and courts no longer represent us.
To continue your metaphor, I’m talking about a private table where you know the people you’re playing with, not giving your chips away to someone that is a known hack and proven backstabbing party.
Also you don’t get leverage by walking out of the room, you force them to the table and make them play by the rules. And when they don’t, call them out loudly so everyone in the building knows they are cheaters. Trump was good for that at least.