• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    how do we get viable third parties?

    By having a third party that’s willing to put in the work and do things the right way.

    So, instead of having a do-nothing candidate like Jill Stein who shows up right before every election, then disappears again after only obtaining a half of a single percent of the total votes, we’d have to have a third party that started focusing on winning local/state elections. That would allow them to start having more than ZERO members in the houses of Congress, which is currently the case. And once they have members in Congress, from various districts around the country, then they’d have a real chance at running a presidential candidate who can win.

    Make no mistake. Anyone that currently votes for a 3rd party candidate for president is an utter fool. And there are A LOT of them on Lemmy. A 3rd party cannot win. They are nowhere near winning. Because they haven’t put in the work to create a coalition to actually start having a presence in our government.

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      2 months ago

      Don’t neglect that Stein was a Russian plant to spoil the election. Follow the money and Stein’s activities pre and post election.