In the presidential election, there are only two parties.
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The money is the bigger hurdle for me. I donāt speak German, but if I did decide to go this route (and there a lot of other factors that might limit its suitability) I am a fairly quick study when it comes to languages. I rather look forward to the prospect. Actually, the big issue right now is sunk cost. Iām already more than halfway through my American undergraduate education, and figuring out how to bring all of the pieces together in terms of my personal life would also prove challenging. Itās grad school that looks like a more realistic target, and I wouldnāt doubt the considerations there are different.
Iām all for well-rounded doctors, but thatās not what this system generates. It generates a lot of very nervous undergrads who canāt deal with failure and who canāt see the forest from their grades. I wouldnāt care so much though if universities didnāt cater so much to what the medical establishment foisted onto them.
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I sincerely fucking hope so. Iām still sulking about our election, and hoping Cameronās government will somehow collapse. Also, that Harriet Harman is squashed in an amusing accident involving a piano.
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Also, Berlin is fucking awesome.
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Holy hell I never heard about that. What a disaster!
So is Bernie?
Why are you championing false equivelance? Youāre basing your suppositions on falsehoods.
Please show me the āother partiesā that are in the same position as Bernie Sanders?
Who else is doing this?
Please educate us.
And the very sad thing is people who donāt bother to vote (or throw away their votes) will whine that thereās no third parties to vote for.
Meanwhile, they ignorantly throw away their votes to Republicans who destroy hopes of third parties in the future with rampant gerrymandering, voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
What a pathetic, ignorant and lazy ass way to shot oneself in the foot.
The Republicans and bluedog Democrats simply love this kind of ignorance.
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I think you left out a party there (and misattributed one of your quotes).
The Democrats arenāt anyoneās friend but the Democrats. They have no pressure to reform as long as they know theyāll get votes simply because their not the Republicans. Both have conspired to keep it this way.
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Start a topic to discuss.
No, not at all. Do your research.
Democrats and Republicans are radically different in this regard.
The Democratic party does not participate in voter suppression, etc. ā As a matter of fact, the Democratic party pushes āGet out the voteā campaigns and is well-documented in fighting Republican voter disenfranchisement, etc.
You should also research district gerrymandering. Republicans do it vastly more than Democrats do in modern times.
If youāve ever worked with groups that are trying to form third parties (as I have), youād know that voter suppression methodologies and especially gerrymandering are huge obstacles to forming a foundation for progressive third parties in the first place.
I donāt like the Democratic party (as a whole) and thatās why I want them replaced and/or reformed, but I also donāt think spinning our wheels and falling victim to false equivalence between them and the Republican party is a good strategy for beating them. It has the very opposite effect.
Suggested reading: Sun Tzu - The Art of War
With lots of commentary:
Pretty much just the translated book:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/polisci211z/1.1/Sun%20Tzu.pdf
The Democrats arenāt anyoneās friend but the Democrats.
It makes no difference that they do this for self-serving purposes or not. Either way, it creates a vastly more hospitable climate for future third parties when Democrats win and Republicans lose.
See The Art of War aboveā¦
They have no pressure to reform as long as they know theyāll get votes simply because their not the Republicans. Both have conspired to keep it this way.
Please donāt succumb to false equivalency.
Thereās a crucial difference. Most Republicans (if not all of them) have conspired to keep the status quo in line (fight reforms). But the truth of the matter that the corporate media wonāt tell you is that there are some Democrats who are fighting for reform. You really need to look at their voting records and act accordingly.
I suppose you also think most Democrats voted for the Iraq war? No, another propagated myth derived from corporate media bullshit. Most Democrats voted against it while nearly every single Republican voted for it.
There are critical similarities between the two parties and thatās why I want the Democratic party both reformed and eventually replaced by progressive third parties.
There are also critical differences that shouldnāt be ignored or it will work to help both parties to support the corporatist right.
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I have the Art of War right here in a bilingual edition with the Classical Chinese, which Iāve been working to learn to read. Thanks, though. 
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They wanted to build a new building and the administration went along with it.
The dorms, I know. I went pre-dorms, when you had to fight the hipsters for an apartment somewhere in Queens.
Dorms? No, they tore down one of the older buildings to put this up:
$111 million dollars.
Also, this just happened:
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Wow, I just got done google earthingā¦ Looks like they tore down the admin building, thatās the engineering school. Pretty snazzy for an engineering school. I canāt weep for the old engineering building, it looked like a motel.
But my Godā¦ the Kiev restaurant turned into a Starbucks? Where will the poor students get their pierogi and borsch now?
I would like to stick my nose in and point out the Democrats would be happy to gerrymander all over the place, but they lost control of state governments in lots of places, mostly for lack of trying.
Oh whoa, youāre about ten years behind then. And the answer is Veselka on St. Markās. Or Coney Island. The Stage Diner next to the Orpheum just closed this year as well, and I think we can all admit their pirogi were superior because they just never cleaned the griddle.
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āTactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.ā
