If there is one thing that we can agree upon as Americans, it would be that our country is so hopelessly polarized that we can’t even pass a budget anymore without shutting the government down. Instead of doing what is best for the country our politicians are doing what is best for their party at the expense of real Americans. I guess that is what we deserve…allowing ourselves to elect millionaires who have zero clue what it is like to struggle or live paycheck to paycheck.
We should have seen this coming, but like a frog in boiling water we didn’t see it until it was too late. So the question is what do we do about it? The obvious answer is to throw all these bums out but even if we did that, the cancer (i.e. lobbyist, dark money groups, etc.) is still there and would infect even the most idealistic democratic or republican candidates. So maybe we need to have a real discussion of whether it is time to have a legitimate centrist 3rd political party?
The reality is that it’s great in theory but if it were easy to do it would have been done already. That is where tonight’s guest Solomon Kleinsmith of Uniters.org comes in. Join us tonight 7:00est as we dive into the realities of starting a centrist 3rd political party and the reasons why it has to exist but also the challenge of getting there. The short answer…its fucking tough but if we have patience it can happen. So if you obviously don’t want to miss tonight’s episode because the future of our country is at stake and by missing our show you don’t get the plan on how to save it….no pressure at all.
Joining me as always in the studio is Bill “Billy Ray” Reed of the armchairqb.org blog where he keeps me in line and makes sure I keep the show nicely situated in the gray.
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