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‘Uncommitted!’ Where Next? The November Midwestern Rebellion

How a targeted movement can drive a wedge in the two-party monopoly this November.

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Faced with two horrible choices for President — a potential convict hated by half the country, and a genocide-enabler hated by most of the rest of the world — many Americans are entertaining subversive fantasies of a third-party win.

“Impossible!”

Thus shouts the “common” wisdom, embedded deep within us by a two-party system interested in preserving its power at all costs. “A third party can never win,” words Lincoln himself must have heard. The intricacies of an electoral college are brought to rhyme with ‘Freedom’ and ‘the World’s Greatest Democracy.’ From standing every school-day morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, to the late-night mumblings of historians on the cable networks about the ‘Shining City on the Hill’ and ‘Perfecting the Union,’ we are told ‘Yes We Can,’ except when it comes to third parties.

Why not?

While I think a third-party electoral college win is a far cry for this November, a targeted third-party campaign can drive the wedge that breaks the two-party monopoly. The emphasis here is on ‘targeted’. Our resources are limited. We do not have the billions of corporate and foreign PACs. Therefore, we need to concentrate our efforts on achievable targets.

‘Uncommitted’ on my 2024 Maryland Primary ballot (Photo by the author, May 2024).

The idea is to leverage the success of the ‘Uncommitted’ movement in certain states to force the execution of the 12th Amendment to the Constitution — a move that will likely trigger a constitutional crisis and instigate an opening for the vigorous change we want.

What unites us is that we stand against genocide and reject both Trump and Biden.

But first, let’s review the successes of the uncommitted movement in the primaries. The Listen to Michigan campaign started spontaneously in early February, three weeks before the Michigan primary. Its message was simple: We do not support genocide!

“Michigan voters sent Biden a…