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What will it take for staunch Democrats to vote third party? (x.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/151111

With the dust is settling from their defeat on Tuesday, it's becoming clearer that there was some incredible malpractice going on in the Democratic party. As shown in the tweet I linked, Biden delayed dropping out even though his team knew it was going to be a complete blowout for Trump. Then, we have Harris's campaign spending over a billion dollars and still losing all of the swing states she needed to win.

For all the Democrats who would never vote Republican and would have never voted third party, are you now considering voting third party in future elections? If not, what would it take?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The viability and practicality of third party presidential candidates isn't relevant to the question. If the Democratic party doesn't change and keeps losing, what good does it do for Democratic progressives to keep compromising for it when third party candidates with better platforms are available?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what would it take for you to vote third party?

^ that was your question, and telling me my reasoning behind the answer I gave isn't relevant to what it would take me to vote third party is farcical and asinine, and that's being generous

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So then no amount of failure or lack of corrective action on behalf of the Democratic party would get you to cast a vote for a third party presidential candidate?

Edit: I mean if you didn't have RCV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

With fptp, other better leverage points exist than dividing progressive voting share at the top. That's our opportunity (as I see it) to state that we would like to keep the progress we've made, however small it might be. Downballot races all the way down to town boards are how we can push the legislation and policies we wish to see signed into law to achieve further progress. Success there also allows for more leftist/progressive people to be the pool for presidential candidates.