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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…