As longtime, or even mediumtime, readers of this disreputable little blog know, there are three businesses which have (to tweak a phrase from Tony Soprano) traditionally been recession proof since time immemorial.
Certain aspects of show business, the mob and Centrist/Country First/No Labels third-party grifts.
And since the heady days of David Brooks coming down with a severe case of squealing fantods over Democrats primarying his pal Holy Joe Lieberman and insisting that what Murrica really needed now to fight the vile Republican Tom DeLay and the equally menacing --
...net-root DeLays in the Democratic Party...
-- was the creation of a McCain-Lieberman Party (which just so happened to line up exactly with where David Brooks stood on every issue)...
....this disreputable little blog has been on the job, tracking most of the flashier Third Party flimflams.
This little blog was there days after the No Labels grifters began raking in dough from credulous dopes with far more money than sense (Dead Center -- Political Cowardice Now Has Its Own "Movement"!)
This little blog was there when Howard Schultz waved enough cash under Steve Schmidt's nose to convince him that the answer to the threat from Donald Trump was a third party run by a coffee magnate. And we were there when the checks stopped clearing.
This little blog was there before Matthew Dowd was candidate Matthew Dowd, running as a Democrat in the Texas Democratic primary.. Back when he was ABC News' chief political analyst Matthew Dowd -- a man who would lecture anyone, anywhere, any time that the Democratic and Republican Party were equally malevolent and beyond repair and that the only solution to overthrowing that K'rupt Duopoly was to vote third party.
And over the decades spent tracking these hustles and fan dances I've learned a few things. Things like "Muh! Muh! Third Party!" will eventually become the Resting Grift Face of almost anyone who built a career out of being a professional Both Siderist, and of a small clutch of enterprising Republicans who swear they woke up one day to discover to their utter shock that their Republican Party was...full of Republicans!
This is why so many disgruntled current and former Republican office holders have popped out of obscurity in the past four years to announce with great solemnity that they are forming their very own, boutique McCain-Lieberman Party.
Or "movement".
Or "cause".
All claiming the same two things.
That they are beset daily by a veritable army of Republicans (anonymous because they dare not speak out) and Democrats (who are entirely imaginary) and Independents (who are actually Republicans) all begging them to create a Center Right/Center Left coalition to save Murrica from...
...The Extremes on Both Sides yadda yadda.
Which is why no one has any reason to be surprised that Christine Todd Whitman and her youthful ward Fallout Boy were on Morning Joe (where else) to announce that because Murrica is So Very Hangry For a Centrist Third Party...
And then came Yang...
Seriously, do you realize how stupid this is? Any vehicle has to turn left or right, zig or zag. Even MATH would probably tell you that.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) October 14, 2021
4 comments:
keep raging against the dying of the light Driftglass. Your observations and analysis of the ongoing goat rodeo that is U.S. --and thus world-- politics help me get out of bed most days. We are all in for a world of shite, but the good people I've met on the way down the oubilette - like you - make it worth sticking around for. And that goes double for Fran.
"Now for the new business," says Giblets. "Why's it so hot in here?"
https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/down-with-ship.html
On this day in shanty Ville during the Hoover days of the great GOP society.
The lost Twilight Zone episode narrated by Rod Sterling.
Charlie Koch tried the third party route with the Libertarians in the 1970s and 1980s but he found it cheaper and more effective to go state and local with little things like ALEC.
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