The attention of readers is drawn to Matt Taibbi’s substack column
https://www.racket.news/p/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook
and schemes used to disable various third party candidates.
As I warned in a comment there, and as I shall comment editorially here, scattered about though all political parties are people whose mental stability leaves something to be desired. Some of these people may see news like this and decide that for the highest justice this behavior should be discouraged by advanced technical means. Those are means that leave bodies, perhaps many of them, on the ground.
That’s a very bad outcome. I would not care to find I was living in a country like that. To avoid that outcome, dirty trick maneuvers like this should stop.
Probability calculations for funding looter candidates become unreliable as a growing 3rd party feeds on leveraged spoiler vote clout. “Divide and conquer” is the usual response. Hence the northern Peace Democrats backing Tilden were embarrassed by Klan Democrats in 1876. The Socialist Labor Party fissioned in the heat of the Post-Panic, post-income-tax “Last Election” of 1900, adding the Socialist Party. The 1930 Liberal party handed its prohibition repeal plank to the Dems, who won with it in 1932. Wallace Dems–splintered into the Jim Crow “American” party were absorbed by victorious Nixon Republicans after 1968. We should expect no less than waves of Orangopox-resurrected YAFers eager to entrench the ongoing hostile takeover of the LP.
“Wallace Dems–splintered into the Jim Crow “American” party were absorbed by victorious Nixon Republicans after 1968.”
Not quite. For one thing, most of us supported Goldwater in 1964 and quite a few supported Carter in 1976 (but not 1980). It’s true that the Democrats embarrassed themselves with McGovern in 1972, but recall that the late, great California Republican congressman John Schmitz drew over a million votes that year as the successor to Wallace-LeMay. The libertarians also had a presidential candidate that year, which I only learned subsequently, who made it on the ballot in two states and got something on the order of 2,000 votes. In 1976, we splintered between the Maddox and Anderson nominations in different States, and much diminished versions persisted past that point.
For another, we weren’t all segregationists. Wallace did not campaign on restoring Jim Crow in 1968. There were many national issues that year – law and order, anticommunism, states rights, constitutionalism, crime, arrogant liberal elites, dirty hippies, burning cities, overgrown bureaucracy, out of control federal judges – but Wallace ran a national campaign. Jim Crow wasn’t his platform.
What are the FEC laws, regulations, etc. regarding political sabotage of a political party by another political party? There has to be something considering the Red Scares of the past and communists seeking entryism into other political organizations.
I doubt that they would get involved. The FEC really only cares about reporting what you raise and what you spend. If this fake no labels organization reported everything they did, then no one cares.
Everything else is just civil, unless they physically break into someone’s offices, such as what was done during Watergate. And of course, if they had done something like hijack a domain name, then that would start as civil and potentially end up being criminal. But that is very hard to prove.
No, evil gets away with evil. Remember, although this is technically a republic, they considered it a democracy. In a democracy, the wolves get to vote to eat the sheep. In a republic, the sheep get a lawyer, who usually also gets eaten.
Republicans want to restrict who can vote. Democrats want to restrict who can be voted for.
That is funny, would you mind if I used that, potentially on a T-Shirt?
I’ve read the start of it. It is clear that someone, and we certainly suspect it to have been operatives from the Republican Party, did the same thing to the libertarian party.
Dirty politics has existed for literally centuries. It is quite active in many parts of the country in local elections. An organized national push to destroy political movements was obviously expected. This is just evidence of what we all knew has been going on.
Yes, we live in a country with evil people. They do evil things, and they sometimes get away with it. Their agents are everywhere, and this is not just some wacky conspiracy theory. They do have agents, including some people who post on this site.
The biggest clue is not using their real name and hiding their identity-or at least attempting to hide it. Not everyone who posts with a fake name is a bad person, but a few of them very likely are.