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"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire*

*Attributed

It's an amazing film, which makes the sequel, Faraway, So Close even more bizarre... it's the polar opposite.

Not yet...

Taking over a major party by challenging center candidates in primaries and winning in the general elections.

See the Tea Party / Red Hat takeover of the Republican party.

Progressives need to do the same to the Democrats.

Brazil
Wings of Desire
Blade Runner: Original Theatrical Cut

Others too obvious to mention... see the rest of the thread.

You let the Green party go. They can't get 1% of the vote, haven't won an election in any state, it's past time to give up the illusion that they are a real party.

If a third party can't win an election in nearly 30 years, it's not really an alternative to anything. Time to let it go.

Proof prayer doesn't work?

Similar to Andrew Breitbart, or Rush Limbaugh.

"And nothing of value was lost."

So how many election cycles do we give them? Serious question.

Look at the Green Party as a prime example:

1996 - 0.71%
2000 - 2.74%
2004 - 0.10%
2008 - 0.12%
2012 - 0.36%
2016 - 1.07%
2020 - 0.26%
2024 - 0.56%

29 years, 8 general elections, 0 electoral college votes. Zero.

To put that in perspective, more electoral college votes have been awarded by ACCIDENT (2004), than have been won total by the Green party in 29 years.

More electoral college votes have been awarded by faithless electors (2016) than have been won by the Green party.

Their best run was with Nader in 2000 and even that did not move the needle.

Primaries are where you fall in love, the General election is where you fall in line unless you want the opposition to win.

The folks I banned here weren't honestly advocating third party, they were conservatives attempting to split the Democratic vote.

Once the mask came off they were banned. I probably gave them more rope than I should have.

Sorry, it's not an opinion, it's legal fact established by our founding documents.

It's irrelevant how much people "like" it.

State and local officals have no control over Ice or federal policy which is what is being protested.

Shooter was an unaffiliated voter, who hadn't actually voted in '24 or '22, dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween and had Republican parents:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/us/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-invs