Talk:Veterans Party of America

A centrist party? Yeah, I can see they say so themselves, but...
... if you look at their platform, it is extremely detailed only on immigration with the details all concerning the ways illegal immigrants should be registered and all the instances in which they should face "immediate and permanent deportation."

The platform also includes some rather brief, but sweeping pledges to running a balanced budgets by shrinking the government and eliminating "unconstitutional departments" (hmmm... I wonder which they might be...):

With the exception of their idea of making non-restaurant food except, the VPA's tax proposal is also classic right wing policy through its focus on abolishing the income tax in favour of a consumption tax:

The VPA also seems quite fond of voter ID laws based on the usual vague claims about voter fraud, but supplemented with a populist spin on the worry about the influence of money on politics (a concern that is present in all shades of the political spectrum).

While the VPA environmental policy contains some nice-sounding phrases, it is no accident that it's headlined as "Resource Sustainability", because it is clearly based on global warming denialism:

And yes, the VPA platform also supports the English-only movement:

In sum: While the VPA describes itself as centrist, its platform has several of the hallmarks of the kind of right wing populism that Trump appealed to during his presidential campaign (incl. such topics as economic nationalism and infrastructure projects), though it's obviously nowhere nearly as wingnutty as the extreme right wing Trump supporters, such as the Charlottesville gaggle. ScepticWombat (talk) 21:49, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * add it! 22:56, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I will, Fuzzy, I was just wondering whether I was overanalysing things (as I hadn't heard of this party before), which is why I decided to flag it here and perhaps be corrected before I started being sarcastic, ironic and/or snarky in the article itself. ScepticWombat (talk) 10:06, 24 September 2017 (UTC)