• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    living in country with citizens who already think they have lost their options no do not think third parties will have any chance until the people finally wake up

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      2 months ago

      Waking up happens by building viable candidates with down ballot support, not trying to shoehorn a fantasy third in an election year.

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        2 months ago

        but with the Republicans and Democrats doing everything they can to snuff out third parties we may never be a truly free country

        only free to think what is advertised to us via propaganda and galas Democrat/Republican conventions keep forgetting the lingo

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          Ok sounds like you’re resigned to it.

          I’m all for building new candidates and platforms and “platforming” their ideas. But if that platform is used to try to kneecap the current “best” of our establishment leaders (bad as they are), then it’s all junk.

          By attacking your nearest neighbor (not so near, but nearest) all you’ve done is strengthened the much more chaotic, much more hateful other option.

          Build consensus, then shift the window.

          Edit look at how Bernie Sanders, AOC, or ilhan omar do business. They are generally aligned with the democratic party, but are pushing to the left. Great stuff, we need way, way more of them.