3.29.2005

The Third Party

Most people view the left and right as polar opposites. They see political worldview as the core of someone's beliefs, there is no lower denominator. It occured to me yesterday that the left and right really have a lot in common. The left finds comfort in a big government that ensures equality and justice. The right finds comfort in god and conservative moral standards. Both sides are willing to ignore reams of data; evolution/human nature on the right and economics on the left. The right believes in the science behind economic theory yet try to ban the theory of evolution. The left accepts the science behind evolution but denounces economic progress as a way to make the world better. Human nature is the lowest common denominator. Both sides just want hope and comfort, and that's exactly what their worldviews provide.

People choose not to face reality and maybe the world is better because of it. I'd hate to see what would become of the world if one day everybody just gave up hope. I'd hate to see what would become of the world if one day everybody just gave up hope. I see poor people buying lottery tickets every day at the local liquor store near my office. Maybe they've given up on a god who lets them suffer like they do but they don't lose hope, they just use the lottery to fill that need. Some don't have hope and use alcohol as an anesthetic. Hope is a good thing but could be a better thing if it didn't come at the expense of civil liberties or economic progress.

There is talk of a new moderate political party. I don't see it working unless it's compatible with hope and provides comfort. So how do you provide hope? Well if you take a scientific view of the world you realize that we have a lot of work to do. We're not created in God's image. That leaves a lot of room for improvement. Science has the potential to cure cancer and AIDS, end hunger, create a global society which might lead to peace. If that party used all of these breakthroughs as a marketing tool to explain that science is a pretty good way to figure out truth. Hope would slowly migrate from God to the lottery and then to the hope that we as individuals and as a whole can make the world better with scientific advances. I'm not talking about better Ipods. Social science, political science, economics, medicine, cognitive science - what makes us tick. Many of these areas are ignored because of biased but comfortable conflicting beliefs.

The left calls for a top-down approach to improving the world. The next big thing according to a lot of people is the grassroots or pro-am revolution. Journalism/Media will improve and hold polluters accountable. Monopolies based on distribution inefficiencies are crumbling due to the rise of the Internet as a nearly free way to do business. We'll still need an SEC and EPA but this self organizing grassroots regulation is probably going to do a much better job than a bureacracy. That's an idea Libertarians should be pushing.

In other news:
  • David Byrne of Talking Heads fame has a new radio station. Eclectic, kinda weird but good.
  • Jay Rosen has a great article on the future of the Newspaper business.
  • Michael Malone has a related article Farewell to Newspapers.
  • Mulder has a blog. No mention of Scully.

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I think when comparing the two parties you have to remember that there is a big difference, especially lately, of what they believe/preach versus what they actually do. As someone who almost always votes republican I can say that the Republican Party has not been representing me how they claim they will.

As far as a third party, I don't think it is going to happen anytime soon. To have a strong third party thrust into the game without one of the dems or reps falling off the chart, I would say you needed something comparable to a revolution. Unless there is a massive scandal in one of the two parties or some major event, I don't see it happening. The two parties have too much control and they are easily able to stifle and subdue any challenging party. You suggested something that the Libertarian party (third largest) should push. It doesn't matter what they push because you don't hear about it, period. The mainstream media is in cahoots with the two major parties and with their power; nobody can rise up with out extreme outside forces, i.e. massive scandal.....

Even if a strong third party were to arise, you would really have to change the structure of our election process. You can't have presidents being elected with 30% of the vote. Its bad enough we have 47% or 48% now but 30% is dangerous. We would need some sort of runoff election where first the top two vote getters from any party then compete in a final election to find the ultimate winner.


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