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Jeremy and Zarah's new left party surges towards half a million sign ups
(www.thecanary.co)
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That's more than Labour and Tories membership combined.
(Why is party membership so low in the UK? The Democrats claim a whopping 45 million members)
US party membership works differently. They claim every registered voter
the mainstream US "political parties" aren't really political parties in any way that most of the rest of the world would recognise tbh. more like caucuses of one party.
Exactly, those US "party membership" numbers (that one can find on Wikipedia, for instance) are pure BS. They only come from the 31 or so US states that have voters "register to vote by party". The percentage of those "registered voters" that actually donate to (or engage in any kind of activism for) the Democrats or Republicans is extremely low. Most of the world's countries have much higher levels of what we might call "political engagement" (like activism, for instance) than the United States. The US political system is an ossified, plutocratic, two-party dictatorship.
Ah, I see