My city has a new Marxist Leninist party that has started up after the election. So no they aren’t gone, but they are still harebrained.
We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting.
The best solution to the two parties excluding the left isn’t a third party, it’s for the left to register as Republicans and conduct a hostile takeover of the GOP in the primaries.
This can easily succeed in blue states/cities to start out.
The only way to create a viable third party is to vote for them. America needs a third choice.
I don’t remember third party proponents. I remember the depression and realization that both parties continue to work hard to make this country suck more.
“Hey, let’s vote for a candidate who literally cannot win from a party that hasn’t done the necessary work to become nationally viable because I don’t want to be part of the two party problem even though if we do so it will guarantee that a felon rapist who incited an insurrection, stripped women of a human right, and illegally attempted to overturn an election will win.” - Dipshit 3rd Party Voters
Just as stupid as Trump supporters, as far as I’m concerned.
Well, they got what we told them they’d be getting. Why aren’t they celebrating?
I think the real problem was those that stayed home. Turnout wasn’t great.
The election is over, did you expect them to keep telling you to vote 3rd party when there is no election to vote for them in? Perhaps you noticed that all the “Vote Harris” commercials stopped too?
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oMg WhErE dId ThEy gO???
It’s almost like we live under a fundamentally corrupt system designed for slave masters to work together.
The CEO’s in charge are fucking everything up, too. Google, Apple, Adobe, Reddit… They’re all getting worse every single day.
Jill Stein received less than 1% of the vote. Scapegoat someone else.
It’s not the 3rd party candidates that are being scapegoated, it’s the people who sat about yelling about how terrible Kamela is and people should vote 3rd party or stay home. Now, shockingly, when people didn’t show up to vote for the D ticket we ended up with the R option and things are already getting chaotic before he’s in office. Yet they apparently are perfectly OK with this result.
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You cannot quantify how many people stayed home, nor their reason for doing so, but I did just quantify how many people voted third party. Everything else is conjecture.
You cannot quantify how many people stayed home
Umm, you very much can. It’s called knowing how many people voted, knowing how many people are in the U.S., and knowing how many are under 18, then everyone left over didn’t vote.
245 million people were eligible to vote. Close to 90 million didn’t.
Yea I did what Bernie did… vote for Democrats in the election because it was the opinion closer to my own beliefs. I’m a registered NPA at this point because I find the DNC embarrassing to be affiliated with.
For the most part I’m a democratic socialist. I’ll be supporting those types of candidates get elected as just regular Democrats, because (for the people in the back) THE USA CURRENTLY HAS A TWO PARTY SYSTEM!
Right here, what do you want?
Apparently you’re supposed to bring up politics when commenting on cat pictures or something.
Right here, what do you want?
Generally speaking, I think we want you to be a more intelligent voter.
You voted for somebody complicit in a genocide. You call that intelligent? Do you think it becomes intelligent because 70+ million other people also did it? Real “if everyone else jumped off a bridge” moment.
You voted for somebody complicit in a genocide.
I voted for someone whose values, and whose party’s values, are closer to what I believe is best for average citizens in the United States of America, based on hard data over the course of decades. If the other option was better for Palestine then maybe your argument would make sense…but that isn’t the case, so it doesn’t.
Instead, 3rd party voters voted for candidates that had absolutely, positively, undeniably no chance of winning, and now they get a president that least represents their ideals.
Real intelligent.
I responded to another comment of yours with the “we’re not voting for them because we’re not voting them” fallacy 2 hours ago. Apparently you didn’t read it, or if you did, you failed to comprehend it. Link: https://lemmy.world/comment/14469499
A population using “chance of winning” (i.e. “is the population voting for them”) as a criteria for voting for a candidate is circular logic and irrational. End of discussion. You can act like an arrogant know-it-all after you actually gain the first fucking clue what you’re talking about.
What do you have to say for yourself?
Told you so?
But we told them so.
Vote 3rd party and an anti-democratic felon rapist will be your leader.
Then it happened.
Could they also tell us I told you so?
3rd party voters, “Focus on these issues or we won’t vote for you and you will lose.”
Dems didn’t listen to voters and instead moved closer to corporations/conservatives.
Then it happened.
Dems didn’t listen to voters and instead moved closer to corporations/conservatives.
And now those 3rd party voters who didn’t want that, are getting that, to the extreme.
It doesn’t matter what they wanted, since every single 3rd party vote (including right wing third parties) could have gone to Kamala and she still would have lost.
Would’ve happened regardless of my vote and the votes of Green/PSL voters. Your candidate had the worst electoral performance since the Republicans took California. Would’ve needed a better candidate and a party that actually listens to criticism, instead y’all chose to stuff your fingers in your ears and dismiss any and all criticism and proceeded to eat shit, as we told you would happen. You can’t pin this one on us, the failure is on your candidate and party.
How?
The Democrats insisted their candidate was good enough, but we weren’t on board? We said that, and got ignored, and the Dems lost
Nobody was denying that was an outcome, just that it was a daft one. That’s why they were trying to convince you it was daft. You could only say ‘Told you so’, if what they were saying wasn’t true.
It wouldn’t have changed the outcome regardless of how we voted or what we said. But the criticisms we were making weren’t just about our own values or preferences, they were things that would have allowed her to appeal to a much broader section of the population. It was not our willingness to criticize and take a stand that caused this, but the Democrats’ stubbornness and unwillingness to listen to criticism.
Ultimately, it just goes to show the necessity of building a better party from the ground up. The one thing Democrats are supposed to be good for is keeping Trump out, they’ve abandoned any pretence of actually helping people or not committing mass murder, and they can’t even do that. It’s a sinking ship.
It introduced apathy that could’ve changed the outcome. You’re not including all the people who didn’t vote.
There were no easy policies that would’ve led to victory. Doesn’t matter if the policies are objectively good or popular as she was up against a misinformation machine. She ran a near perfect campaign in the time she had. And Biden only came back initially because yous already voted Trump in once. You got exactly the government you deserve unfortunately.
Could’ve united and killed the republicans party. Locked Trump up. Shifted the Overton window back and gotten some leftists as the opposition but looks like you’ll need to do it the hard way.
I guess you prefer anti-democratic felon rapists over run-of-the-mill Democrats.
Thanks for being honest about it.
Which third party candidate is an anti-democratic felon rapist?
If you’re implying that I’m not voting for the Democrats and thereby supporting Trump, sleep well knowing I didn’t vote Blue in 2016 or 2020 either.
Which third party candidate is an anti-democratic felon rapist?
Right over your head.
If you’re implying that I’m not voting for the Democrats and thereby supporting Trump
I’m not implying. It’s a simple fact. One that you don’t appear to be capable of understanding.
But please, keep being a stable genius by voting for candidates that cannot, and will not, win until their parties do the work necessary to become viable, which they aren’t.
That shit makes you look real smart.
I’ve historically voted 3rd party. This past election i voted for a party that did not represent me or the policies I support, all out of fear of orange man. What did compromising my values do? Fuck all.
Voting 3rd party in America sends the message to the losing party that if they wanted that vote there is policy they need to adopt. There are things they need to change.
Issue in this election is even if every 3rd party vote went to kamala, she would have still lost, because they ran THAT MUCH of a terrible campaign. Their message was tone deaf. It was generic and lifeless. I could have been a better campaign manager for them and frankly that’s sad.
People get pissy when you criticize dems, but the fact of the matter is they are very much the problem in this country too. Saying they aren’t as bad as Republicans only speaks to just how awful they are, not how good dems are. Until people recognize this and demand change everyone is going to be stuck supporting one of two evils or maybe a 3rd party can steal enough support to replace one of the main 2.
All that hinges on trump not going full dictator. At this point I don’t have confidence enough Americans would actually stand up to stop him.
I’ve historically voted 3rd party. This past election i voted for a party that did not represent me or the policies I support, all out of fear of orange man. What did compromising my values do? Fuck all.
Me too except biden in 2020. And then immediately from the start it was endless frustration, disappointment and anger. Gaza is inexcusable. Fuck the democrats. Fuck America. This country got exactly what it fucking deserved. Karma for meddling in the rest of the worlds affairs by the capitalist imperialist uniparty that pretends to be at odds with each other over social wedge issues yet is United in keeping the entire world under its boot. Now america gets to experience the collapse of the imperial core.
Needless to say I didn’t repeat my mistake of voting for democrats in 2024. I’ll never vote for them again.
I’ve historically voted 3rd party. This past election i voted for a party that did not represent me or the policies I support, all out of fear of orange man. What did compromising my values do? Fuck all.
And? Voting 3rd party would have done fuck all for you too. And you wouldn’t have been helping to potentially keep an anti-democratic felon rapist from the Oval Office.
Voting 3rd party in America sends the message to the losing party that if they wanted that vote there is policy they need to adopt.
It also helps anti-democratic felon rapists become the most influential person on the planet. People who adulted up and voted Dem instead of 3rd party in 2020 did actually prevent that person from taking office. It isn’t a full-proof plan. But it works sometimes.
because they ran THAT MUCH of a terrible campaign
Maybe so. But you aren’t accounting for the MASS misinformation being peddled to Americans. We just elected an anti-democratic felon rapist. That isn’t normal. That happened because the internet is frying a ton of American’s brains and they aren’t acting rationally because they’re so misinformed. The guy about to be sworn in as our leader went off on a tangent about immigrants EATING OUR FUCKING PETS and Americans absorbed that shit hook, line, and sinker. As far as I’m concerned stupid Americans are more to blame than a shoddy campaign. Especially since the other guy’s campaign consisted of TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRANTS EATING OUR PETS and mentioning that he had CONCEPTS OF A PLAN.
People get pissy when you criticize dems
Personally, I get pissy because I actually bothered looking up both party’s voting history and criminal conviction history and I know voting Dem is a WAY, WAY better option for average Americans than voting Republican or 3rd party at this point in American history.
maybe a 3rd party can steal enough support
Lol. This isn’t a video game. There’s no cheat code. No 3rd party has done the work to get representatives elected locally across the nation, slowly building a coalition to eventually get enough clout to put up a presidential candidate that stands a chance. That involves years, decades, of back breaking work. Anyone that tries voting for a 3rd party candidate in a presidential election now, or anytime in the near future, is living in a deep, deep fantasy simulation.
All that hinges on trump not going full dictator. At this point I don’t have confidence enough Americans would actually stand up to stop him.
Guess those 3rd party voters should have put their fantasies aside and voted intelligently. Too late now.
If every third party vote had gone to kamala she would have still lost substantially. The dems shitty campaign, not allowing a democratic primary (repeatedly) and tone deaf policies/messaging is what caused them to lose the easiest election ever. Full stop. They’re not going to ever change. Thinking grassroots will take over the party shows you aren’t paying attention. Thinking ranked choice voting will swoop in and save the day shows you aren’t paying attention.
You done the right thing, don’t fall for the psyops.
Kamala’s campaign was not that terrible in comparison to the state of Trump. Your fellow citizens failed you by letting that eejit gain ground.
Saying they aren’t as bad as Republicans only speaks to just how awful they are, not how good dems are.
I am an anarchist. I’ve never voted. (Not American) But, Bush, Clinton, Obama, much of the same. Trump takes us down a dangerous path. One in which dissident and protest will be squashed.
One in which dissident and protest will be squashed.
All of which already has been going on for decades by both capitalist imperialist parties. Kent state in the 1960s for example!
Yes that’s when it started. We’re now at the exponential stage with the nations pick running on shooting protestors, executing leftists and putting ‘vermin’ in camps.
I am an anarchist.
That sounds quite interesting! What do you do that relates to or supports anarchy? (Except not voting obviously)
Counter-economic shit (Agorist).
Helped launch/run the first darknets (pre-silkroad), currently in crypto pushing the p2p monetary movement.
No offense but you are not American, who is us?
The world. More immediately, the west. Him and his daft son already meddling in our countries affairs.
Kamala’s campaign was not that terrible in comparison to the state of Trump.
This. So many people are trashing Kamala’s campaign while completely ignoring the dumpster fire campaign Trump ran. Probably because Trump being a dumpster fire is just commonly accepted by now. The guy talked about immigrants eating people’s pets and admitting that he only had concepts of plans. It was comical.
But everyone has to focus on Kamala’s campaign because Democrats have ALWAYS been held to a higher standard.
She had to be flawless and he got to be lawless.
Shameful.
I want a no party system.
