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In reply to the discussion: Stein, Sarandon, Cornel West and their ilk own this. [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Some Johnson voters are further right-leaning than Trump.
Thing is though, Third Parties are always going to be there. If the candidacy had a strong-enough message and the enthusiasm that Barack Obama had, then we shouldn't worry about third parties nor gaining electoral votes against the worst candidate in election history. Frankly, choosing a glib unheard-of-outside-DU Tim Kaine as a VP didn't do her any favors.
It's not so much our economic message that needs to be fine tuned . . . I want to know what anyone's going to do to combat offshore outsourcing, worker displacement via automation and corporate greed. Encouraging entrepreneurship isn't a plan since success by that route depends on multiple factors (luck, sales skills and other people's disposable income being the most of it). Expecting specious individual solutions to solve long-standing structural problems just isn't going to cut it.