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Anonymous said...: If all parties, single interest groups and individuals of the left, in the US, would form a coalition, establish or adopt an umbrella party (why not the Greens?), and run a single candidate for any given office, that would introduce real politics into the US political system, and would probably elect some leftists to congress.

This strategy is working in Germany and in South America. Why wouldn't it work in the US? That this has not been tried, or even seriously proposed and promoted, in the US, at this late date, amazes me.

Failing an adoption of this strategy, I think we can expect increasingly fascist rule by the RepubliCrat twins forever.; March 14, 2015 at 3:30 PM

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