I expect to read about the idea of a third party challenge on the progressive blogs, but not from Thomas Friedman.\u00a0 The fact that someone with his mainstream perspective is admitting this country is in very serious decline, and that both parties are bankrupt is significant. The fact that he knows of groups on both coasts that are mounting a serious third party challenge is noteworthy.<\/p>\n

So, stay tuned, we may have a very interesting 2012 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic and Republican parties are bankrupt, or let\u2019s just come out and say it\u2014they\u2019re corrupt. Banks, corporations and the influence of billionaires have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[603,693,694],"yoast_head":"\n