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cadoman

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25. third-partier is just a political life phase

Reply to PSPS (Reply #17)

Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:17 PM

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It makes all the sense in the world for a few years till you actually live it.

Then you realize the reality that the party infrastructure is a paper tiger but is deeply enshrined into law, that only a handful of people understand it, show up to events, and run it, and that you can have as much or as little political effect as you want by participating in the party system.

What is very real though, are powerful election spoilers who are in this life phase and can utterly disrupt a more balanced two party fight.

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