COLUMN: The issue of third parties in American politics

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COLUMN: The issue of third parties in American politics

The issue with the left is that we don’t know how to make concessions. It’s hard to make concessions, but when it comes to losing one thing or losing everything, the left has an odd proclivity for choosing the latter. Like it or not, the United States is a two-party system. I hate the two-party system, as do many Americans, but the route to change is not paved by blindly voting third party in high-stakes elections. Viable third parties are not b…