Wilsonville, Oregon
June 29, 2016
by Rich Scheck
Those who are familiar with my essays are aware that I have been
promoting the need for a new political party for over 4 decades.
https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=38529
Today’s news is filled with articles by those who are describing
the need to challenge what Eric Zeusse calls “Americas One-Party
Government.”http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44988.htm.
Others have called what we currently have the “bipartisan oligarchy” led
by those David Stockman calls “hyper-interventionists!”
Bernie Sanders seems to have some fantasy that he can still
transform the Democratic Party from within while he continues
playing footsie with its nominee who represents everything
he claims to be against: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/opinion/campaign-stops/bernie-sanders-democrats-need-to-wake-up.html?_r=1
But with voters hungry for an alternative and with attractive third
party choices available, 2016 could finally be the year when a
viable new party finally emerges out of the chaos.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44990.htm
I would argue that to the extent Trump has captured the Republican Party and the Sanders insurgency basically undermined the traditional leadership of the Democrats, we may have four third-party groupings in November:
1. Trump/neo-Republicans;
2. Hillary/Sanders neo-Democrats;
3. Jill Stein/Green Party and
4. Gary Johnson/Libertarian Party http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44993.htm
For me, Sanders has it right when he states we need a
president who “decreases the possibility of war!” Yet in
picking to back someone who has irresponsibly labeled
Vladimir Putin as the new Hitler and whose entire career
has been based on promoting US wars of aggression,
Bernie falls far promoting that goal.
As Gareth Porter states clearly in his essay, the Sanders
“revolution” must take on the permanent war state.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36603-why-the-sanders-revolution-must-take-on-the-permanent-war-state
In my opinion, his failure to do so during his campaign is why he
lost to Hillary. It will be interesting to see which of these four leaders
emerge as the biggest anti-war candidate.
No matter how you slice it, this is the year of the disaffected
voter…whether here, in England with the BREXIT and elsewhere
across the globe.
Change has finally arrived as long predicted as inevitable by
me and many others. How this all plays out in the months and
years ahead remains an open question, in part to be decided
by whether folks stay eternally vigilant in protecting their liberties and
not going back to sleep once a new team of politicos come to power.