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Form a new party!!! Don’t call it Labor or Labour. Don’t call it Green. Don’t call it progressive. Don’t call it socialist or liberal.
Just give it a name that people understand and don’t have preexisting bias against. “For The People”
Take on BOTH the democrats and GOP. Become popular overnight. Keep hammering home it is not about skin colour, race or country of origin, but about the billionaires that aren’t happy with paying no tax and having billions. Make it about the 99%.
It is the only way you’ll get your country back without excessive violence. The two status quo parties are hollowed out from the inside. And both are infiltrated by foreign interests.
This is my absolute ideal too, but I worry that it would only take voters away from democrats thus leaving Republicans with a majority. Ranked choice voting is an obvious answer, but what else can we do?
Democrats are already losing to obvious fascists. What would splitting the vote do that hasn't already happened?
Split it faster and make it even harder to regain those votes, leaving the field open to the fascists who stick together.
Under an FPtP system, starting a new party is only a benefit if they can take basically all of the Democrat votes with them and encourage a good percentage of those who didn't vote to vote for them. Many elections have been pretty tight, so even a small reduction in the Democrat vote risks just handing those to the republicans.
This is the only way imo, new party. I’m convinced it would be wildly successful, beyond all imagination. The people are ready.
This is a bad idea