2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Party Candidates Polling Abnormally High, Media Doesn't Care [View all]in places like Spain and Greece, when their formerly left of center parties turned to the right on economic issues, new left of center parties have emerged (Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece). I realize that they have different political systems, but when a system no longer benefits the majority of people, there's no logical reason to work within the system. Sometimes systems become so corrupt and stale they become unrecoverable. Few in Mexico bother to delude themselves that the PRI can be reformed and made progressive once again. When the more "progressive" party is something like the modern Democratic Party, the time is near. Having said that, whatever emerges won't be built overnight and people cannot splinter off into a thousand different parties. If the left wants to matter nationally, it has to have a common vision and a coherent strategy on how to get there.