tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post8350476926900813796..comments2024-01-06T17:38:53.551-05:00Comments on Poli-Tea: The Third Party Tradition in American Politics: Against Duopolist Historical Revisionism, Part 3d.erishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-72966300318656295862009-12-09T08:12:11.985-05:002009-12-09T08:12:11.985-05:00Les, another condition is when the ideological spe...Les, another condition is when the ideological spectrum becomes too narrow and there is not enough room in both parties to accommodate the diversity of interests in the US, and maybe another would be when there is very little dynamic movement between the two major parties, when they have become stagnant and rigid.d.erishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-22697223578455077612009-12-09T01:12:43.360-05:002009-12-09T01:12:43.360-05:00Two things seem to give rise to third parties in t...Two things seem to give rise to third parties in the US. One is when the ideological spectrum becomes too far spread out, as happened before our Civil War. The other is when a large group of persons is moving between parties. Thus the Progressives of 1924 were really the Roosevelt Republicans becoming Roosevelt Democrats. Likewise the Dixiecrat and American Independent parties were southern Les Publicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02222161455780426131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-29965481279074933682009-12-03T17:07:19.192-05:002009-12-03T17:07:19.192-05:00On the basis of the co-optation argument, one coul...On the basis of the co-optation argument, one could also make a strong case against a strategy of infiltration. Arguably, if you are a strong progressive or conservative interested for the most part in issue advocacy, you are better served not by working to change the parties from the inside, but thwarting them from the outside and thus forcing them to come around to your position. It is likelyd.erisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-81841235594671195732009-12-03T13:06:00.028-05:002009-12-03T13:06:00.028-05:00Arguably the best evidence for the authors' cl...Arguably the best evidence for the authors' claims is the Republican adoption of the "southern strategy" in order to co-opt the movement that coalesced around George Wallace in the 1960s, though the GOP never co-opted Wallace himself. In 1968 many observers feared that Wallace's candidacy would throw the presidential election into the House of Representatives. By the Reagan'Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com