Excellent analysis @markhodge. Hope to see more of this from you. Your style seems recognizable, do you by chance publish in one of the internet media like alternet or counterpunch?

As to your post above, if a Repub. goes third party then it won't matter if Sanders siphons off 20% of the D vote in the general as long as the R spinoff does the same with the R party. I think the Libertarian party has a chance if someone halfway known and popular joins them. Like Ron Paul.

Indeed, the D party has done little to distinguish itself from the R's. Certainly not with Hilary. They very well could on Foreign Policy. If I were Sanders I'd get boned up on this topic because there are a ton of independents who know what's going on overseas and would love someone's bandwagon to jump on.

Someone needs to put himself out as the guy to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians by getting tough on Israel rather than getting tough on the Palestinians like Trump is doing. It would be soooooo easy to make a case to the public why it needs to be done that way.