[ilbegone]

The times might be different, but "they" tried this in the 60's and early 70's.

After all the Viva Kennedy election hoopla, "they" felt that the Democrats let them down again. So, concluding that the government was a two headed goat (Democrats and Republicans) of which the two heads fed from the same trough.

So, Jose Angel Gutierrez and his merry band of activists formed the La Raza Unida party and went door to door talking it up and registering voters, making sure that they stayed below the dominant political radar.

At first, it was spectacularly successful. They took over the school district, city hall, and county government. They fired all the whites and hired only Latinos, except where they needed expertise and the white hire was sympathetic to the "Latino" cause. They had the free medical consultation and all the rest, including a small farm cooperative.

Then, due to human nature and several lawsuits, it imploded. However, it is a model which has been used over the last 40 years to take over various governments and educational infrastructure from within the Democratic Party domain.

"They" protested en mass before the economic collapse and what did it get them? singed wings. Will "they" bring back the concept of a third party which is racial in nature? How will all this blatantly racial and ethnic activism play out to the larger American public since the corporations got bailed out but the working man is now running out of unemployment benefits?

Will Luis Gutierrez be able to pull the "divorce" off?

We'll just have to see.