Poli-Tea: One Year On

It has now been just over a year since I launched Poli-Tea. The archives here contain almost 550 posts – with hundreds of comments and thousands of links – dedicated to sustained critique of the two-party state, the duopoly system of government and the ideology that sustains them, as well as to the promotion of third party and independent alternatives to the deadlock represented by Democratic-Republican politics-as-usual. I'd like to think that Poli-Tea is a forum unlike most others on the political web. Judging from comments, backlinks and the followers widget, Poli-Tea's readership is certainly an eclectic bunch to say the least, including conservatives, moderates, liberals, progressives, Independents, Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionalists, and Whigs among others, not to mention the politically unclassifiable. Allow me to take this opportunity to thank longtime readers and relative new-comers, commenters and correspondents, friends and fellow bloggers in the third party and independent blogosphere, without whom this blog would be nothing more than exhibit A in the case for my commitment to the nearest mental health facility. Thank you. I would also like to thank the dead-enders of the duopoly parties, those Democrats and Republicans whose partisan hypocrisies, intellectual dishonesty and political immaturity stand as a stark reminder of everything that is wrong in American politics and government, and whose discourses continue to provide us with a virtually limitless source of material for the evaluation of the reactionary ideology that undergirds the two-party state and the duopoly system of government.

Suggestions, comments and criticism heading into year two are more than welcome.