http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/07/the-weiner-party Comments On: The Weiner Party by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Michael -- don't you know someday a
Spike'll
Grow right through the woodwork
And come out through your palm...
We was listenin', yeah we was listenin'
To the Devil's Radio

-Robyn Hitchcock


Posted by The Man with a Woman's shadow]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:26:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wisepunk]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:08:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Proteus]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:38:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by david]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:35:14 -0800 The Stranger
Quasi: resembling; seeming; virtual: a quasi member.

Pseudo: not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham.

Crypto: a person who secretly supports or adheres to a group, party, or belief.

So, he's virtually pretending to secretly support Marxism? I guess that means he's not a Marxist then, and apparently, not even trying very hard to be one.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:24:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by biffp]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:33:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Gurldoggie]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:41:46 -0800 The Stranger What a meaningless phrase.
Posted by treacle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:31:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by RonK, Seattle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:31:29 -0800 The Stranger @12
So the plan should be to form a voting bloc instead of a whole party.
Then use that bloc to elect politicians who will vote to get the voting rules changed at your state level.
That way 3rd parties can be more easily elected at the local level.

But that will take a lot of work by a lot of people at the grassroots level.
Because having just 2 electable parties is more efficient when you personally have millions of dollars that you plan to "invest" in a campaign.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:30:26 -0800 The Stranger
The rest will happen without us, increasing the schadenfreude.
Posted by nullbull]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:56:34 -0800 The Stranger Such movements are never short on demagogues, if not leaders.
Posted by Sir Vic]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:56:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by theophrastus]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:55:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:50:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Doctor Memory]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:48:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by south downtown]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:39:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sirkowski]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:37:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:32:33 -0800 The Stranger
Right?

@12 has a point. After WW II the parties fixed our system to prevent competition of ideas.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:16:04 -0800 The Stranger
As long as we retain this voting method, we'll ALWAYS have just two parties to choose from (yeah, there'll always be various third parties that have zero chance of winning too, but they're irrelevant in the grand scheme of things).
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:11:29 -0800 The Stranger they split into the Democrats and the Whigs.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:11:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by aiff]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:04:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mrbarky]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:03:27 -0800 The Stranger
In the history of the United States, the only successful third parties were the ones that formed out of the ashes of hopelessly divided and dysfunctional ones. The Democrats out of the Democratic Republicans, the Whigs out of the Federalists, and the Republicans out of the Whigs. If a third party successfully rises out of the GOP's division, it will be the result of the mainstream Republicans leaving it to the teabagging vultures, not the other way around.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:03:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Why are there cars?]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:58:37 -0800 The Stranger