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Third Party Loyalists: Insanity Redefined or Political Attention Deficit Disorder?
Third Party Loyalists: Insanity Redefined or Political Attention Deficit Disorder?
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/02/third-party-loyalists-insanity-redefined-or-political-attention-deficit-disorder
By: Tom Gallagher
Date: 2016-09-02
One audience member on the comment line following a recent Oakland, CA Green Party discussion panel—titled “Growing the Political Revolution: What's Beyond Bernie?”—cited Albert Einstein for having once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting things to turn out differently. This maxim is actually invoked with some regularity these days as a caution against American left efforts within the Democratic Party. As the argument goes, these endeavors have been so obviously unsuccessful that any non-insane observer can see the futility of their continuation and recognize the need for a “third party” candidacy instead. The presence of this viewpoint at a Green Party event is to be expected, naturally. Nonetheless, standards of evidence should still prevail and it seems fair to pose the question of what you call it when someone fails to notice that things have turned out differently.
Insanity? Perhaps not.
Political attention deficit disorder? Maybe.
Supporters of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders cheer during a Sanders rally at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington March 25, 2016. (Photo: Reuters)
Source: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2016/09/third-party-loyalists-insanity.html
