I want to talk about American politics. No, wait, don't go! Not to worry; It Is Ok; I am Canadian. Nothing your nation psychotic death spiral of irrational blood revenge, Vampire kleptocrats and the cargo cult of magical thinking does not mean to me. (With the exception of his undeniable entertainment value.) Yes, I mean both political parties. It is so strange that you only have two. We have five. As southerners you so little?
I have long argued that America needs a third party, any third party. While I thought the Tea Party could be it, but instead, they have done something a lot cannier. Don't get me wrong, I think their politics delusional, but I'm reluctant to admire the way they hold the Republicans to the slave using the system vulnerable GOP primaries. This political equivalent gain root access by hacking an unpatched loader.
Now funded startup to the birth of a third party through the mighty power of the Internet. No, really. Americans elect is on the road to accreditation and accommodation in all US States. At the same time, it was the Kuwaiti delegates who register on your website in several groups of like-minded people that would suggest or support candidates. The first round of voting will reduce the candidates to a core group of six candidates, all of which you must select a running mate outside of their own party; then in April next year, the online Convention will determine which of these six will Americans elect a candidate.
This is a great idea, and a lot of people, such as the NYT Thomas Friedman, quite enthusiastically. But alas, my feelings about AE the same as my view Friedman: mixed but mostly negative. It is a fair amount of flak for his secrets about who is funding it, considerable veto power reserved his Council, and the lack of diversity among its first cohort of delegates. But my main complaint is that I just don't see it work. Shooting at the White House out of the gate is too much too soon. America needs a third party, Yes; However, this third party governing State or two before he aims for the Presidency.
You can say that this launch was born in the Beltway, not in the Valley. The latter will set the minimum viable product, city-or State-level political movement and viewed there, learn from their mistakes. Instead, Americans elect a rate of approximately 30 million dollars in one complex dice. It's too bad, because we just enter an era where you can create and maintain a completely new political movement online; but Americans elect ambitious failure would probably tarnish this approach for years to come.
Update: Strange (i.e. non-zero) number of people suggesting in comments that American first past system makes it impossible for a viable third party. Let me just remind y'all that may not be familiar with how the rest of the world works, Canada and the UK as the first past the post voting; that Canada has three or more parties for all living memory, and its historic "third parties" has recently surpassed the one that governs the nation for most of the 20th century; and, similarly, in the Great Britain historical "third party" is now a part of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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