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August 13, 2011 10:01 pm GMT
I want to talk about American politics. No, wait, don't go! Don't worry; it's OK; I'm Canadian. Your nation's psychotic death spiral of irrational blood vendettas, vampire-squid kleptocrats, and cargo-cult magical thinking means nothing to me1. Yes, I mean both of your political parties. It's so bizarre that you only have two that matter. We have five. How do you southerners get by with so few?I've long argued that America needs a third party, any third party. For a while I thought the Tea Party might be it, but instead they did something much cannier. Don't get me wrong, I think their policies are insane, but I do grudgingly admire the way they hold the Republican Party in thrall by exploiting its vulnerable system of primaries. It's the political equivalent of gaining root access by hacking an unpatched bootloader.Now a well-funded startup intends to birth a third party via the mighty power of the Internet. No, really.
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Americans Elect Shoots The Moon (And Misses)
I want to talk about American politics. No, wait, don't go! Don't worry; it's OK; I'm Canadian. Your nation's psychotic death spiral of irrational blood vendettas, vampire-squid kleptocrats, and cargo-cult magical thinking means nothing to me1. Yes, I mean both of your political parties. It's so bizarre that you only have two that matter. We have five. How do you southerners get by with so few?I've long argued that America needs a third party, any third party. For a while I thought the Tea Party might be it, but instead they did something much cannier. Don't get me wrong, I think their policies are insane, but I do grudgingly admire the way they hold the Republican Party in thrall by exploiting its vulnerable system of primaries. It's the political equivalent of gaining root access by hacking an unpatched bootloader.Now a well-funded startup intends to birth a third party via the mighty power of the Internet. No, really.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CHE7y3dWys8/
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