• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    There’s no room for our system to allow a third party in. They’ll just be crushed by the two other parties. It’s a rigged system. Money wins. No other party will have the money to win state votes and keep them.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s not rigged, it’s just the inevitable stable state of the system. The US will have to move to a different voting system for third parties to matter.

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      13 hours ago

      If you get enough actual leftist 3rd party House and congresspeople in, Dems have to make alliances with them.

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        13 hours ago

        So your plan is to defeat democrats in democrat states going up against all the campaign funds that the democrats will provide to beat this third party; and then you think once they’re congress you think democrats are going to vote with them to get lefty stuff to pass that will make this new leftist party look good?

        Hey, man. I’ve got some magic beans to sell you.

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          12 hours ago

          False assumption to think that third party can just unseat Democrats. Also, the Dems had more money than God during the last election and couldn’t beat Trump. Also, Dems consistently neuter their own “leftist” bills (such as the green new deal) before they’re even out of committee so I don’t think they’re going to actually improve anything materially for me.

          You don’t need to use the whole magic beans sneering talk with me, dude, we probably have the same interests at heart.