To Dr. Charles
Wheelan,
Dear Dr. Wheelan,
on April 8,
2017 I wrote a large paper on the true mission of the third
political party.
Later in the following papers I've clarified my views on the matter. At the time, I didn't know about the existence of your Unite America group. I only learned about you and your project yesterday from the media.
Quickly
checking your website, I realized that your group has declared the political
strategy similar to the one I have described in my posts.
I also have
found that from 2013 your group called The Centrist Project, and changed the
name in January 2018.
I don’t
know if your Fulcrum Strategy was influenced in any way be one of my posts, or
not (I am still waiting for your book The Centrist Manifesto), but it does not
matter, because it appears that you using the strategy in a wrong way.
Or at
least it seems like you have misunderstood the main idea of the purpose of the
third political party.
No doubt, ultimately it would be a great
achievement if the third-party candidates, or independents would be elected
into various entities of the government.
However,
the political mission of the third party is not
electing third-party candidates, but helping
the best candidates to be elected.
If some
day from now the best candidate will be the third-party candidate, that will be
just great!
But in the
current elation cycle expecting that a non-Republican or a non-Democrat would
have a good chance to be elected is just not realistic.
And the
motto of the third-party is “We are realists who help making the future better!”
Realistically,
in the current environment a third-party candidate would not attract enough
voters in order to win the election. So, about two weeks before the election
day, the third-party candidate should address to his or her followers and to
urge them to give their votes to the best candidate, who, again, in the current
political environment, is a Democrat.
I'm afraid
that your strategy of promoting third-party candidate to the very end will hurt
democratic candidates in close races, and actually will help to elect Republican
candidates, which had happened before (including 2016 presidential election).
Pursing
this strategy can only deter people from your group.
Sincerely,
Dr.Valentin Voroshilov
Appendix
I got the book.
And that makes him (and his party) no different from any other 3d-party enthusiast, i.e. delusional narcissist (delusional narcissists).
As I stated before, the main purpose of a 3d-party is not promoting its own candidates, but helping the best candidates to get elected. This approach requires humility, humbleness, and even sacrifice, because one has to spend a lot of energy on helping others to get elected. But in return the party gets noticed, then gains respect, then trust, and then - only then - it can count on electing its own members.
BTW: How I voted
Appendix
I got the book.
And it is clear Dr. Wheelan and I have independently come up with the idea of having a small number of independents in a Senate to rule it.
But Dr. Wheelan stopped just there.
He wants to create another party, like many other 3d-party enthusiasts.
As I stated before, the main purpose of a 3d-party is not promoting its own candidates, but helping the best candidates to get elected. This approach requires humility, humbleness, and even sacrifice, because one has to spend a lot of energy on helping others to get elected. But in return the party gets noticed, then gains respect, then trust, and then - only then - it can count on electing its own members.
BTW: How I voted
