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The political outsider gets inside
Posted by: William Thien on: July 16, 2020
The other unfrequently mentioned reason reason for the disdain for President Trump by the media and the two major political parties is that he is not a political insider.
There is nothing more frightening to the two major political parties than someone they can not control, someone they didn’t recognize as a threat on their political radar screens, or someone that took the highest office in the land right before their very eyes while they sat fat and happy and watched it all happen, believing right down to the final vote tally that it will never be.
The two major political parties have acted like gatekeepers to national level office in this country. You might see third party candidates often holding local offices and perhaps even state level offices, but very infrequently will you see third party candidates in Senate or Congressional seats, if at all.
What all of this tells us is that if Donald Trump can do it, even with such incredible resistance as he has had to endure, well if he can do it given those seemingly insurmountable conditions, then just about anyone can do it.
Copyright © William Thien 2020
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America does not have a two-party system
Posted by: William Thien on: April 29, 2018
Watching ABC News “this week” this morning one of the political analysts asked a group of respondents if the “two-party system” in America was broken?
The problem with that question is that America doesn’t have a “two-party system.”
There are many other political parties. It is just that two of those parties, Republicans and Democrats, have been able to secure the dominant positions in American politics. There are many other parties. Just to mention a few of them there is The Libertarian Party, Green Party, various forms of socialist parties (Democrats could be considered socialists nowadays and Republicans could be considered so as well depending upon how you look at the tax code and social safety net). There are numerous other parties as well as independents. There are parties that are more conservative that The Republican Party such as The Tea Party.
American does not have a two-party system.
So, in answer to the political analyst’s question, “NO,” the two-party system is not broken because we don’t have such a system here in America.
Copyright © William Thien 2018
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Trump, The Republican Party Pledge, and Campaign Promises
Posted by: William Thien on: March 26, 2016
To me the organized party establishment effort to push Donald Trump out of the leading position as the potential nominee of the Republican Party is a revealing phenomenon. After forcing Trump to pledge his allegiance to the Republican Party, the party has all but pulled the rug out from under his feet. Yet, there Trump stands with the most solid position of them all.
Obviously, even if the party establishment does not want Trump to receive the nomination, the constituency holds a different sentiment. Trump is the front runner for a reason. Imagine where he would be with the political support of the party that forced him to pledge his allegiance to the party in the first place!
Ultimately, it is as if the party has broken its pledge while Trump has kept his. What the Republican Party has done to Trump is not unlike the politician that makes elaborate promises during the campaign and forgets about the promises when in office, becoming aloof, unresponsive, and contrary until campaign time approaches once again.
We all know what that is like.
Copyright © William Thien 2016
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An observation on cross party infiltration
Posted by: William Thien on: July 26, 2023
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve listened to a candidate and said to myself, ‘geez, he or she sounds just like a candidate from the other major party.’
It is the reason you often hear pundits comment that the two parties are not all that much different, “ideologically.”
Were I approaching the matter from an analytical perspective, perhaps say working for our The State Department and examining candidates in an election overseas, in order to understand how to approach a regime for example, I would conclude that one party has installed fake candidates in the other party to throw the election in their favor.
I think that is happening today and to support my position, I bring up the political career of Ronald Reagan. Prior to joining The Republican Party, Ronald Reagan was a Democrat. “Whaaaaat,” you ask? “No,” you say.
Yep.
Reagan was also head of the largest union in Hollywood, The Screen Actors Guild, and he was considered a devout liberal. Now, I don’t confuse the work of unions with socialism. They are not the same. Though many socialists find refuge in union ideology, unions are not by definition “socialist.” Socialism involves a redistribution of wealth at the state level using tax payer dollars. Unions are aggregates of employees with common interests. There is a significant structural difference in the two. Though conservatives often say they are one and the same. They are not.
So I ask, how is it that a Democrat can completely change his political composition, his philosophical presence and shape so easily, and win the presidency after migrating from one party to another?
In Reagan’s day such political maneuvers were pretty much done on the up and up. Today, I wonder.
The key will be to determine the origin of their belief system, aside from the size of their donor base and campaign spend. Money is huge in politics. Without it, there is only one other option to win an election.
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