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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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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] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

the staunch never change.
the staunch is the minority. Bigger returns can be had with the non staunch
gotta get first past the post replaced with ranked choice. The problem is convincing those in power to take that chance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I could see maybe getting it implemented outside the federal level, but in all honesty the slow change in culture that would develop from a new voting method wouldn't be nearly enough to make the gigantic changes required, even if we are talking about keeping America capitalist.

If there were larger organizing efforts, much like that required to get ranked choice implemented, which had ranked choice as one of the demands, then yeah I could see big changes happen.

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