Normal response from the resident "No Nothing Party" (Google it up) but who sees boogie men "liberals" behind every tree and under every rock... BTW, GfinS, you are not 3rd party material... You have camped out in Tealand and unwilling to do much of anything but lob poo...

But, yeah, a 3rd party, Mrrzy, is needed... Back in 1860 that party was the Constitutional Union Party which actually carried three states, including Virginia... They found themselves pissed with the Northern Republicans who were pushing hard to end slavery and the Southern Democrats who not only wanted to keep it but to expand it into western territories... They worked hard to get the soon-to-be--hot-waring factions together and instrumental in a last ditch effort in Baltimore to find compromise...

The problem we have today is not completely dis-similar except, unlike 1860, we have only one party which is extreme and that is the Republican Party... The Democrats have signaled that they will sit down and discuss a spectrum of problems with everything "on the table"... The Republicans have signed pledges to the industrialists that in no way shape or form will they increase revenues...

Some you have one party that is entrenched and one that is not but the Republican PR has done a masterful job of convincing the masses that both parties are equally entrenched... Hitler said that the masses would believe the BIG LIE (his words) and right now that's the problem...

Okay, back to the idea of a 3rd party: I guess that if I were to start one I'd call it the "Sane Party" and it's "mission statement" would read: "We, members of the Sane Party, agree to take America's problems seriously and to build solutions based on the best available science, knowledge, wisdom and logic regardless of ideology."

The only plank that the Sane Party would agree on and push for would be to have all America's voting districts be redrawn by a neutral international commission under the auspices of the United Nations and to publicly finance all future elections...

BTW, had the Constitutional Union Party, who were trying to get the Repbs and Dems to ***compromise*** then the unCivil War would have been averted...

B~