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Schmitt in Democracy Journal ..

These third-party or independent projects [No Labels, Americans Elect, Bloomberg] usually have three characteristics in common .. First, the people stoking these initiatives are rarely outsiders—typically, they are the very people for whom the existing political system has been most lucrative. They are lobbyists, fundraisers, political consultants. If there is, as is often alleged, a continuous cocktail party that runs the country from Georgetown salons, this is it .. These initiatives are like company unions, designed to redirect discontent into safe, controlled forms that don’t threaten existing power structures .. Most of the co-founders, like many of the other third-party fantasists, come from the conservative wing of the Democratic Party

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