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To: Dale Baker who wrote (388)	6/5/2005 12:07:41 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541342

Nader was on CSPAN this morning talking about 3rd parties- the abolitionist party, the women's votes party, the agrarian party- he was talking about how effective 3rd parties can be in terms of reforms. On the other hand the parties Nader was talking about weren't very moderate- so I wonder if you could have a moderate 3rd party? Seems to me independent parties are usually issue driven, and because they are issue driven are mobilized by fairly extreme issues. I'll have to think about this a little more in the historical context, but off the top of my head, that's the way it seems to me.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (388)	6/5/2005 12:27:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541342

Suppose a candidate picked 10 domestic issues and 10 foreign policy issues Maybe you are defining ideology more narrowly than I am. In my view, issues are just threads of the overall ideology. I'm thinking social democracy vs. marketplace, big government vs. small, conformity vs. freedom, evangelical vs tolerance, authoritarian vs libertarian, people are basically good vs people are basically evil, them/us vs. brotherhood of man, etc. Where you stand on Social Security reform is just one of the issues du jour. I agree that issues don't last long. But those ideological questions endure for centuries.