UM: I think this guy needs to check out James Sundquist's Dynamics of the Party System, bit below excerpted from a post on how there really needs to be a political party for centrists:
"I'm registered as an independent -- I think of that as my political purgatory until something truly practicable emerges on the political landscape. Perhaps a new party is in order. Even as I write that, it sounds heretical to our binary democracy.
And yet, the first Republican president -- Lincoln -- ran and won when his party was only six years old. It's true that Republicans back in 1860 were inspired by the Whigs, but it was a new party nonetheless. Is that so unthinkable under today's circumstances?"
I was under the impression it picked up a large section of the previous Whig party and also a fair number of disaffected Democrats...but I might be remembering wrongly.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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