• @tburkhol
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    1716 hours ago

    The reality of American political process is that it takes at least a billion dollars to run a Presidential campaign. (Thanks, SCOTUS) That kind of money doesn’t come from unions, social activists, or proletariat donors. It comes from corporations and billionaires, and those people don’t like revolution.

    Until someone can demonstrate that you can get more votes with progressive, worker-friendly policy proposals than with a well funded propaganda machine, the DNC is going to keep chasing the less conservative billionaires. And no third party will even be relevant.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      1213 hours ago

      As long as the DNC is chasing billionaires, we have no second party.

      • @[email protected]
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        -411 hours ago

        I mean we very obviously do. We have two corporate oligarch parties, but I would much rather have the tech billionaire club that brought us the Gates foundation or the Allen institute and isn’t actively trying to kill a large portion of the country than the one that sees what Israel is doing to Palestine as a good model of how to clean up the riffraff

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          69 hours ago

          I mean we very obviously do.

          No. We have a viable party that chases billionaires with credibility behind it, and the Democratic Party that chases billionaires while pretending that they are for working people, and kills their own viability because they have no credibility with either group.

          As long as they chase billionaires, Democrats are not a viable second party. From a functional standpoint, we have only one party.

          • @[email protected]
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            -23 hours ago

            Does viable have a different definition for you that doesn’t include winning roughly half of elections?

    • Em Adespoton
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      612 hours ago

      The thing is, a message that’s simple, resonates, and allows people to blame others will always win out over a message calling people to pull their own weight and do the complicated but correct things.