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In reply to the discussion: Pierce: 2020 Is Already Shaping Up to Be Another Festival of Stupid [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)takes more large donor money, Democrat or insurgent candidate. It's whether 2020 will continue the shift of power away from Republican authoritarian corruption to Democratic liberal progressivism.
The two main parties have been taking offices away from each other by very slim margins for a few years now, and political scientists say that will continue for some while.
That creates a very great danger that any third-party candidacy on the left will throw the nation to Republicans in 2020.
Our choice is not Bernie or whomever versus our Democratic candidate. Our choice in 2016 was the same as it will be in 2020: Liberal progressive government under the Democratic Party OR continued authoritarianism and corruption under the Republican Party.
You may not like that, but neither do I. Third party candidacies are strictly a luxury for more stable times when they introduce a wider range of ideas, rather than a real danger of growing fascism.