07-06-2016, 03:44 PM
(07-06-2016, 10:29 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Reform Party will have to re-establish itself in states like California where it lost ballot status. The Reform Party ran a Trump-like candidate in 2000 (Pat Buchanan), and that was its doom thus far. Another such candidate might not work for them. The Reform Party's potential was as a moderate party; xenophobia is only appealing on the right-wing. Ross Perot was a flawed candidate, but his generally-moderate approach had great potential to break open the duopoly. And he was anti free trade, so that was a common stance with Trump today.
Has it held a convention? It might as well nominate the Libertarian ticket.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.