<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">A viable third party is one possibility, but that's nearly an oxymoron in our system. Maybe changes that help make other parties viable? dave</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">Guess who is in charge of party politics in the states? Dems and Repubs, who want vast number of signatures for a third party.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">What we need is someone to come out of nowhere, like Obama did, but be independent, like Wallace and Perot (was Perot ind.?). </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We will tell a lot after the November elections what needs to be done.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:00 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div></span>How are we to regard people who don't have a side? You gotta be for some things and against some things, and that puts you on a side or two.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I have many sides, and calling myself Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, etc, doesn't come close to representing what I believe about any particular issue. I suspect that's true of most people, but most people choose one of those labels.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Your suggestions are fine, but we need very large numbers of people on our side to get anything done and the Dems occurred to me as the best of the sad alternatives. Create something new? Like what ?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I don't know, let's start talking and see what develops. A viable third party is one possibility, but that's nearly an oxymoron in our system. Maybe changes that help make other parties viable?</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Are you talking about How We Live Now? Gimme a link to that. I can't find one. Is that content in Against Authority by him?</div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></span><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm talking about "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">How to Free Your Mind in the Trump Era", of which he writes:</span><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Recently, I’ve written and posted a new free book, How to Free Your Mind in the Trump Era. This is not a political rant, but a short essay that offers some practical advice to anyone </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">feeling overwhelmed by America’s toxic political landscape. It’s also available on <a href="http://johntwelvehawks.com" target="_blank">johntwelvehawks.com</a> (</span><span style="color:rgb(178,24,178);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://www.johntwelvehawks.com/download-trump-era-ebook" target="_blank">https://www.johntwelvehawks.<wbr>com/download-trump-era-ebook</a>)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and a wide variety of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">public websites.</span></i></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But, no, this is new since "Against Authority". More of an essay than a book, really.</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Dave<br></font>
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