…This means freedom of/from religion, free speech, the usual ACLU/CCR positions, BOTH/AND defense of 2nd amendment rights, decentralizing enforcement and devolving power to the state and local governments under the 9th and 10th.

Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Ralph Nader and Jesse Ventura have an essentially compatible, if not identical foreign policy and a confluence of these forces is possible on common ground issues — while ditching the wedge issues entirely from the platform.

Thing is, none of the present nationally organized political parties are capable of representing this, mostly due to the imposition of micro-managing and strictly ideological platforms which bend towards extremism (especially the theocratic Constitution Party and anarcho-cap pro-war Libertarian Party). The Green Party has similarly moved in an extremist direction on the POCLAD cult issue of destroying all corporations, distinguishing them little from the various socialist/communist factions (Socialist, Socialist Workers, Communist, Socialism & Revolution, Peace and Freedom) spinning their wheels for decades.

I once thought the Greens the most capable vehicle for a third party of national significance to emerge, but with their own set of hostile control freaks frustrating the will of their own primary election voters in two consecutive presidential elections, these hopes have been dashed.

Any new party will have to establish at the outset the two most fundamental principles: One person, one vote (none of this fake consensus groupthink) and complete, total resistance to the two party scam, no exceptions, all offices get contested.

Progressive Party ????

Bull Moose Party ???

Speaking of names, I am constantly surprised that here in the centennial of the most successful alternative party effort of the 20th Century, the 1912 Teddy Roosevelt and California Governor Hiram Johnson and the displacement of a sitting President.

Conservation/ Greens have TR’s Parks and Preserves. Reform, well, anti establishment. Progressives have a Nader like consumer protection, like Bill Taft’s Clean Food and Drug efforts. The Bull Moose is well known from seventh grade civics class and the Theodore Bear plush toys and tee shirts are a natural fund raiser.

—- Don Lake, California