re: #248 Last Mohican

I don’t see any way out of it. There are enormous amounts of money and power riding on the parties’ success in radicalizing people. That has always been the case, but the parties have only just started to realize it in the past ten years or so. I think the existing system would utterly reject the emergence of any third party. It would take some sort of cultural movement that pressures people to be reasonable again, as a matter of political correctness. Just what John Avlon is doing, except that I’m not sure if he has the cultural clout to pull it off.

I should read his book, huh?

Right now, the only way to change it is from the inside…not the outside. A third party will guarantee the other side a victory. If you want to change a party, join it.