Third parties have had a major influence on U.S. political debate and policy. Third parties often organize around a single issue or series of issues that no one wants to raise. In the process they change the American political debate or policy forever. A classic example was slavery. These are often issues that are PURPOSELY excluded from the national debate.
We believe in addressing the deepening economic depression, which is the result of globalization and deregulated financial speculation. Tax Wall Street not Main Street. Current policy bails out bankers and does absolutely nothing to help working people, industrial producers, farmers and small businesses.
“What happens is third parties act as a gadfly,” says Sean Wilentz, director of the American Studies program at Princeton University.