There are better ways to stop third-party presidential voting-

[Ken Burch]

14. We can't just make third-party voting totally stop.

What we CAN do, if we adopt proposals like the ones I listed above, is make it stop(or at least limit it) in presidential voting.

We have no right to simply expect everyone on the progressive side of the spectrum to vote for everybody we nominate, no matter what.

Third-party voting happens because our party has alienated people we could have made common cause with.

They might agree with our national platform in all respects, but they would vote for us if we treated their principles with respect and at least made it clear that, if elected, a Democratic administration would listen to their ideas and take them under consideration.

There are also some issues where we don't absolutely have to be as supportive of the status quo as we currently are.

We could commit to defending the country from external attack, for example, without being indistinguishable from the GOP on the national security state and the defense budget.

We could give human rights(including economic human rights)as great a priority in our foreign policy as we give "access to foreign markets", and we could accept that other countries have the right to stronger social welfare systems, stronger labor movements, and better indigenous rights and environmental standards than we have.

We'd lose no significant number of voters from making either of those changes.