Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for Pucky Misfits and Problem Soldiers.

All the more this week, all the more this week,

as most of America really digs into partisan identities

and just absolutely grabs that tribal impulse by the collar and holds it.

I have never been one of those people.

I don't I'm not a joiner.

I like getting things done. I like people. I'm very agreeable

but I just I'm not I don't like picking up banners and

marching with a big collective group I kind of play my own tune and so this week I

wanted to meet a bunch of people doing their own thing,

playing their own ditty outside of the two dueling pianos that are

loudly dominating all discourse in the country,

certainly this week, if not the last four years.

And that's why this week I am speaking to

minor party candidates and minor party scions to understand what the other voices and

viewpoints and parties are in this country and I'll tell you the thing that I'm

doing at the back of my mind that I'm becoming aware of now is I'm doing at the back of my mind that I'm becoming aware of now is I'm in the course of talking to people

I'm trying to figure out who is best positioned to upset the apple cart.

Who is going to transition from business as usual

or a kind of ceremonial

stating of beliefs to actually... of to do that and for that reason I find the Alliance Party very interesting and if

if you're thinking wait who the hell is the Alliance Party I know okay there's

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