Source:Giovanni Minnelli- New-Left political Ralph Nader, about the American two-party system. |
"Saturday 22 December 2007: "In a December interview, Ralph Nader, who is running again as an independent candidate for president, gave his verdict on his major party opponents"
From Giovanni Minnelli
America is clearly a two-party System, from my perspective a a Liberal Democrat who will probably die as a Democrat and proud to be it. We have a Republican Party made up of Center-Right Conservative-Libertarians, as well as a Far-Right, populist, Tea Party Nationalist base.
And a Democratic Party made up of Center-Left Progressives, and Center-Right Liberals (or Classical Liberals, if you prefer) and a growing Far-Left Socialist (or social democratic, if you prefer) faction that I guess Ralph Nader would be part of, if he was still a Democrat. Of course the two major political parties are very different in America.
If the Far-Left (or New-Left, if you prefer) in America doesn't like our two-party system, they can take their members and create their own left-wing political party. Which means raising a helluva lot of money trying to form states parties and getting ballot access for their state affiliates. Or they can try to survive a a fairly small faction as part of a much larger and diverse political party known as the Democratic Party.
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