Anyone who has ever followed or been involved in independent and “third” party politics knows how extremely difficult it is if not impossible to make inroads into the tightly controlled U.S. political system. Parties like the Libertarians, Greens and Constitutionalists have been around for decades – and God bless their commitment and steadfastness – but they remain at best extras in crowd scenes always featuring the two major stars, namely the Uniparty’s two monopoly wings, the Democrats and Republicans.

Which makes the recent article by Jeffrey A. Tucker of the Brownstone Institute (“The Party is Over”) stand out in this new, Trumpian era of rapid change. Writes Tucker:

Something dramatic has hit Washington. It’s about more than Trump.

The party now in control of the U.S. executive branch is a third party built out of the corpses of two existing parties. It goes by the name Republican but this is nearly a historical accident. The GOP was a vessel that was least protected against invasion and occupation. It has now been nearly taken over by outsiders who had little or no influence within the party a decade ago.

Nearly all the top people now in power – including Trump of course but also Musk, Gabbard, Kennedy, Lutnick, and so many more, to say nothing of the voters themselves – are refugees from the Democratic Party. Coalitions have dramatically changed. Voting blocs have migrated. And policy debates and priorities are nothing like they have been in any period since the end of the Great War.

The occupiers left a Democratic Party that was and is busy consuming itself with Rousseauian frenzies on issues about which most people do not care or are otherwise completely opposed. The legacy establishment of the Republican Party, however, never welcomed them in. They were hated and resisted at every step. https://brownstone.org/articles/the-party-is-over/

The coalition Donald Trump put together for the 2024 election looks like it may be a game changer, a much needed one in a country just as desperate for glasnost and perestroika as the Soviet Union was under Gorbachev in the 1980s.

What is the only thing that never changes in the United States? We have had the same two monopoly political parties since the 1860s. Can you think of anything else that hasn’t changed since the 1860s? How about the 1960s? America is characterized by nothing if not whirlwind levels of rapid change, some of it real and organic, some of it part of the contrived top-down “alternate reality” constructed by the “intelligence community” and the rapidly dying legacy media, which has been designed to manipulate and exploit the American people, particularly the ones the Biden Cabal went to war against, aka Hillary’s “deplorables.”

How has the two-party monopoly managed to last for 160 years, and still counting? Although it wasn’t always as tightly controlled and managed as it is has become in recent decades, there are three essential components:

First is in the area of ballot access. In a system seemingly obsessed with rooting out all forms of discrimination, there is one form of discrimination that is never questioned, and that is the brutally unfair ballot access laws of the 50 states when it comes to independent candidates and third parties.

As well-known and widely liked as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, his 2024 presidential candidacy as an independent sputtered almost immediately because he had no realistic chance of being on the ballot in more than a smallish fraction of the states. The number of signatures required in most states for non-Republicrats is many times higher than the amount needed by the two monopoly parties, and they must be obtained in a short period of time. And when they are obtained, they are often challenged legally by one of the two established parties as lacking a sufficient number of valid signatures, a costly and time consuming process which often is little more than a form of lawfare designed to exhaust the limited resources of any “intruders” challenging the status quo.

RFK Jr. had the ability to raise a relatively large amount of money and yet he was still thwarted by the system; imagine how much worse the situation is for third parties and independents who have little name recognition and fundraising ability. And even though the Libertarians and Greens have managed to obtain ballot access in many states over time, their vote totals are always disappointing due to grossly unfair campaign finance laws, and by being ignored or marginalized by the corporate media (the other two tactics used to maintain the status quo).

Courts – in other words judges who nearly one hundred percent of the time are either a Democrat or Republican – routinely uphold challenges to terribly unfair ballot access laws by proclaiming that too many names and parties “clutters” the ballot, thus making it difficult for Americans to make an informed decision. However, those same Americans are somehow capable of deciding which of 400 brands of cereal in their local grocery store they want (even if all 400 are produced by just a few mega-corporations). It’s only in the most important area of their lives, namely who they elect to represent them, that they somehow become idiots who can’t handle seeing more than two names on their ballots.

Second, when independents and third parties do overcome ballot access barriers and achieve ballot status, they are either completely ignored by the “mainstream” media, or smeared as a “danger to democracy,” or simply given a small amount of coverage that treats them almost humorously, like some exotic creature at the local petting zoo. The corporate media, like the judiciary, is completely beholden to the two monopoly parties and no interlopers will ever be given serious coverage. It takes someone who is super-wealthy – think of Ross Perot or Donald Trump himself – to break through all the barriers facing non-Republicrats in order to make an impact on the tightly regulated system.

The third leg of the triad of methods used to marginalize independents is campaign finance laws. Individuals when it comes to local and federal elections are constrained by how much money they can donate to a candidate or party, usually in the low thousands or sometimes up to twenty thousand or so depending on the state or candidate. But the rich are not constrained by the laws that apply to normal Americans.

The late casino mogul Sheldon Adelson used to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican candidates in return for their pledge of allegiance to Israel. Now his widow Miriam does the same. Mark Zuckerberg, using Facebook, pumped hundreds of millions of dollars to the Biden Cabal’s hiding in the basement campaign of 2020. Elon Musk did the same for the MAGA cause last year, thankfully in his case because we all know America would be kaput if the Cackler had prevailed. George Soros has been notorious for decades for donating huge amounts of money to radical left candidates and causes.

With these institutionalized roadblocks to third parties, always accompanied by propaganda that America has a “two-party system” and it’s a waste of one’s vote to support a third party, it’s easy to see how the 160 year-old monopoly of the same two political gangs has been maintained since the War Between the States.

Which is why it’s so encouraging to see Donald Trump and his brilliant strategy of organized chaos, along with “renegades” from the Democrat Party like RFK, Tulsi, and Musk, currently taking a wrecking ball to the two-party status quo, including the RINOs in the Republican Party.

The two-party monopoly still holds sway, but the Democrat wing is in serious trouble. It grew to near totalitarian, communist-like power under the ghoulish Biden and the ghouls who propped him up, both in the White House and in the media, but their efforts to destroy Trump were so over the top that the extreme left and its media arm succeeded in destroying their own credibility, thus paving the way to quickly be surpassed by the alternative media. Quite frankly, the Democrat Party because of its communistic, subversive nature and the rampant criminality of the Biden years, would be banned in a healthy country, much like unhealthy countries like Germany and Britain ban “threats” to their power from patriotic populists of the right.

If the new Trump administration succeeds against the “resistance” in bringing about a new “Golden Age” in America and the West, the Democrats may become an afterthought in the coming years in spite of still currently holding power in important institutions of power.

If America is to continue to have a two-party system, it should consist of a MAGA controlled Republican Party, run by leaders and politicians at the local, state and federal levels who put America first, and an opposition party from the right that fights for common sense, traditional policies when it comes to current amounts of legal immigration, H1-B visas, the many cultural and racial challenges the country faces, the surveillance state, a potential move to central bank digital currency, and the rapid potentially dangerous embrace of AI and technocracy, while focusing on making sure technology is in service to healthy families and harmonious relations between men and women and the timeless values of man’s unchanging nature as created by God.

https://donwassall.substack.com/p/postcards-from-the-empire-99a