{"id":38529,"date":"2016-05-21T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38529"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:48:42","slug":"update-is-a-third-party-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38529","title":{"rendered":"Update:  Is A Third Party Inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Novato, CA<br \/>\nMay 21, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>I have been working for decades to create a new political party and have<br \/>\nwritten many articles addressing that issue, especially in the context of the<br \/>\n2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>These two articles by other writers show how the likely pairing of Trump vs.<br \/>\nClinton in November has dramatically increased the willingness of voters to<br \/>\nback an independent. 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38416\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38416<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38419\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38419<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The extreme unpopularity of both of these individuals may well represent<br \/>\nthe final straw of tolerance by a disgruntled electorate with a lesser-of-<br \/>\ntwo-evils approach.<\/p>\n<p>Such a welcomed development is long overdue. Sadly, it comes very late<br \/>\nin terms of the amount of damage to the Republic foisted on us by recent<br \/>\nincumbents such as Bush, Sr.; Bill Clinton; Bush, Jr. and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the greatest of these incursions on the Constitution is the complete<br \/>\nabandonment of any role by Congress in overseeing the president&#8217;s exercise<br \/>\nof the war powers. The recent House vote rejecting the overturn of the 2001<br \/>\nAuthorization For the Use of Military Force that was implemented after 9\/11 may<br \/>\nput the final nail in the coffin and cement the notion of the unitary executive.<\/p>\n<p>Will a third-party candidate be sufficiently anti-war and honor the Constitution?<br \/>\nTrump has hinted that he would do so. But he is not to be trusted, particularly<br \/>\nin light of his comfort level with the likes of Henry Kissinger, Rudy Giuliani, Newt<br \/>\nGingrich and others architects of the Washington consensus.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing my best to create a new party for 4 decades. Hopefully the<br \/>\ncurrent pathetic state of our political process will see the formation of such an<br \/>\nentity in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Sample of my previous articles on third-party politics:<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32620\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32620<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36906\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36906<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20365\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20365<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=35635\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=35635<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=28027\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=28027<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=35653\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=35653<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}