IMO, we have the making of the perfect political storm and the possibility for a 3 way race.

[CK_John]

Unless both parties unite around candidates that can show they understand the problems of the future (no more oil) an opening as big as the midwest will provide a platform for an IND.

An IND who will run on a pro science, pro education, pro new energy sources, apolitical problem solving platform, and self financed will get in the race.

I'm not sure if this is a problem the DEM,s are ready to face. Nor do I fear a major shakeup in the political system and think it may be time for a real donnybrook of a race.

[mike_c]

1. agreed-- America is ready for someone better than the corporate tools...

...the republicrat party is offering.

[CK_John]

3. Your anti corporate rant is part of the problem, that is old politics, ranting about non

existent problems.

[Mythsaje]

5. Right, because corporate control of the policy machine

is a thing of the past.

:sarcasm:

[CK_John]

6. Corporations have been around since people figured out it was more beneficial to make ax handles

than ax blades. If they set policy whose to blame for that?

[Mythsaje]

7. The legal fiction of corporate personhood

sure as hell hasn't been around that long. The pretense that money is the same as "free speech" as afforded citizens by the Constitution isn't age-old. Citizens are to blame, to some extent, but Democracy relies on usable, salient information, something they haven't really been getting for quite some time.

[CK_John]

8. Why not? Just maybe they don't want it. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

2. Dems are pro-science, pro-education, pro-new energy--

we got it covered, so it's not a given that he would take from us. But I can't say for sure what would happen if he runs--he might be a really lousy campaigner, and have next-to-no impact, or he might tap into some anti-establishment, anti-party sentiment and make a bigger splash than anyone can predict. I always think of Perot--a nutty, single-issue, unelectable guy, who did respectably well.

[rucky]

4. Very insightful...

and something lacking in detail on the Dem platform.

But in terms of "the race," it would only peel votes from the left side of the banana.