The Hillary Clinton Presidency. My latest in Wednesday's Souciant
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thenewgreen: Obama is often portrayed as a liberal, and is not infrequently accused of being a “socialist.” These notions say a lot more about how far to the right American political ideology has drifted in the last 35 years than anything else.
That not withstanding, I think it also says a lot about how easily convinced the electorate is by the cable news outlets and other various marketers of fear/ideology. If enough outlets started claiming Obama was a theocrat or totalitarian, you'd eventually hear Joe the plumber down at the bar repeating the blather. Politics is a game of marketing towards victory and not steering towards ideals and one party/network is WAY better at it than the other. As for Clinton and voting for the lesser of two evils, don't we need to at some point have enough courage to start voting for a third party candidate? How is it possible that we can mobilize young people online to do any number of noble things but a 3rd party candidate isn't viable? I don't buy it. That said, I have no idea who this 3rd party candidate would be. Do you?
Any ideas on a viable 3rd party candidate people??