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Welp...

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[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe when this fizzles out we can get bipartisan support to change our First Past the Post voting system.

This will ultimately fail until that changes.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Andrew Yang be like..."First time?"

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

One obstacle all third parties face in the US is party-line voting, which favors the dominant parties.

On possible outcome is that he puts a lot of money into making third party candidates more viable, like efforts to ban party-line voting or supporting ranked choice voting. So, you could vote for the America Party candidate and then if they don’t have a majority ñ, you vote could roll over to the Dem or GOP candidate of your choice, reducing your risk of voting third party.

These changes would help Libertarian, Green and other parties as well. More choice for voters!

[-] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I personally believe ranked choice voting is the only thing left that could possibly save this country. When only two large powerful organizations control our entire political system things will not go well. On top of that, it encourages team sports mentality where people adopt political positions simply to support their team. Worst yet, it gives these parties too much power to control candidates who stray from the party line. If you're running as a Democrat and have even one opinion that doesn't align with the script you'll be pushed out. Republicans mostly didn't agree with Trump until he took the party over and used that power to push out anyone who didn't agree with him. If we had multiple parties it would be a lot harder to stop a candidate who deviated on opinion and that's the way it should be.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he's going to give it.

"The America Party"?

TBH, pretty tame in Musk standards. At least it's pronounceable.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm surprised he didn't go with a stupid acronym

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

sobbing Portugal noises

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[-] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

A white South African dude created the American Party

ffs did somebody step on a bug in 2015 and change the whole timeline?

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

How many weeks before he gets bored and abandons it when things don’t immediately work, just like everything else in his useless life?

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

Babe wake up - new reason to not vote just dropped

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

More of a reason to vote, in actuality.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

I see you haven’t met our “leftist” friends.

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