• kuato@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    After the election, what’s left to say about third party candidates who everyone knew wouldn’t win, including the people who voted for them?

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      Isn’t now the time to start building a third party up to have a chance in the next election?

      It’s better than pulling a Jill Stein and parachuting into the debate in the last couple weeks to gain some funding.

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          22 days ago

          No the media did not “ice her out”. Green party has hardly any seats ANYWHERE in the country. Because they are not here to do the work of building.

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            22 days ago

            The only people that got played harder than Trump supporters were 3rd party voters.

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            22 days ago

            Or maybe they are? Maybe it’s difficult to get new people to organize and join and support a party that almost always gets ignored by the news media, or else is being demonized by the democratic establishment or democrat voters.

            People will come into threads like this and complain about the Green party not doing anything for 3.5 years at a time but also refuse to join the green party or volunteer or anything.

            I volunteer. I live in a state with ranked choice voting but left-of-center voters still overwhelmingly don’t vote for local green candidates. That’s on us Greens to do better, but again it’s difficult when there are so few people willing to get involved.

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              22 days ago

              Or maybe they are?

              They aren’t. The fact that so many people seem to be disenfranchised by the 2-party system but 3rd party candidates aren’t winning in local/state elections across the country prove that 3rd parties aren’t putting in the effort.

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        23 days ago

        Isn’t now the time to start building a third party up to have a chance in the next election?

        . . . What’s your point?

        It’s better than pulling a Jill Stein and parachuting into the debate in the last couple weeks to gain some funding.

        Surely that’s the point. Well, that and to throw the election to the other russian puppet.

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          23 days ago

          The point is the same as it was during the late stages of the election, third party needs a massive grassroots movement from early on in order to have traction by post-primary stages in the main parties’ cycles.

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            22 days ago

            True, but they won’t do it because they’re not serious. It’s performative as much as it is spoilage. I’ll be super impressed if one third party is able to be nationally recognized with more than a token presidential candidate in four years.

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      23 days ago

      The same thing Harris voters said. Talking about the loss and about the winner.