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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

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Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Want to build a viable third party for presidential elections? Start small at the city/county level and eventually you will have candidates at the state/federal level. Today’s city council is tomorrow’s senator/president. Does it really surprise anyone that a relatively unknown and unproven candidate outside of the two major parties doesn’t get any traction in a federal election?

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      Oh it’s that easy eh?

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        I think you might need to reread my post, I didn’t say it was easy. It’s reality, which generally isn’t easy.

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        Just keep smashing yourself into the bricks to “deny the wall legitimacy” or whatever. I’m sure it will work this time.

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            let me keep doing the same thing while expecting a different result 🤡

            Says the people who keep voting 3rd party in federal elections and are certain that this time the result will be different.

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        So you don’t agree that starting from the ground up won’t work? Why not? Too much effort or takes too much time?

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      That takes money, lots of it and the 2 main parties have huge corporate donors who will never give money to an environmental party

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      That’s already the goal of state chairs for third parties.

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