Straight forward question. If leftist hate the Democratic Party so much, why don’t they all come together and create their own party. Have their own primaries, campaigns, candidates, etc.
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They’d be handing the extremists on the right an easier win. They need enough energy to grab the Democratic party by the balls.
Basically, you need a voting system that goes “choice number one: Bernie, choice number two: Kamala” etc. At that point, go nuts.
The easiest switch is Approval Voting, which every tabulation machine in America can handle right now without any issue. Plus, it’s very easy to adapt to Sequential Proportional Approval Voting, and proportional representation is the thing that will actually break up the two party system.
short answer: the u.s. have a winner takes all voting system. splitting the left/liberal would ensure victory for the right.
Are you sure. I feel like leftist talking points and leftist figures are more popular with right wingers than people think. They just hate democrats. You don’t think the right’s base would be effective after 4 years of trump with another party there to vote for?
Yes. It is absolutely certain. Ballot access legislation is controlled in each state by the two major parties.
While correct, Republicans are stupid. I don’t mean that to be mean, they are, at best, low information and deeply disengaged with something they have very strong feelings about. They vote based on vague vibes instead of anything sensible. A rich leftist might be able to save the next generation, but the current Republicans are completely lost.
Damn, I got downvoted into oblivion. I guess the left dosent want right wingers in their tent, lol.
While correct, Republicans are stupid.
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They vote based on vague vibes instead of anything sensible.
Irrelevant side note: irony is absolutely my favourite thing in life.
A rich leftist …
No such thing.
Wouldn’t their dislike for Democrats transfer over to any leftist party as well? The right’s propaganda machine will label them the same way.
They seem to like Bernie.
Two party monopoly.
Yep.
On my voting ballet, I had 7 people running for presidency from seven DIFFERENT political parties. Yet the news only talks about two (well three… Fucking Jill Stein.)
We have a billionaire class that controls the media.
You can’t get more than 50% of popular support without compromise. The people who hate the democratic party to the point they’d rather organise a new party are A: too few and B: bad at compromising
But if you believe in it go for it.
Just make sure that you give up and endorse the democrats if you’re polling lower than 50%, or you’ll be an effective supporter of Trump
Nah, I don’t agree with. Just wondering why they don’t.
Most Americans don’t bother with learning the history of how power has been consolidated from the local to the state, state to federal, and to the federal executive. They don’t know that it just takes 5% of their general election vote for President to bypass ballot access obstructionism nationally, to put a new platform on every ballot. They choose not to understand how a third party choice is probably more valuable if it repeatedly does not win.
None of it’s super-complicated. The vast majority of us Americans just don’t really give a fuck. We like to talk about how much we care. Then we risk nothing, sacrifice nothing, trust no one. It’s just pillow talk, baby.
There are “actual” leftist parties in the US.
Huh?
There already are multiple leftist parties in the US. The Green Party is the main one, but there are others.
The issue is that they don’t get much press coverage, and a lot of people use the argument that if leftists split off from the Democrats and divide, then the Republicans will win. That keeps a lot of people from voting for those parties.
Your greens are heavily compromised, if I’m not mistaken.
Jill Stein has had dinner with Putin, so yeah, just a wee bit.
no, she didn’t.
They do, but money is the only thing that matters in US elections.
Combine donations.
Because leftists hate each other almost as much as they hate “libs”. They can’t organise shit.
True
Even Leftists hate other Leftists due to the aggrandizing resource depleting insufferability of micro causes
Please explain like I’m five.
