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democrats must never be allowed to win another election (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Good, it's blatantly clear the US "left" has to be forced to go third party, cause they sure as shit aren't taking that critical responsibility on themselves

Maybe some hard CIA medicine will wake the berniecrats up, tho I doubt it considering a genocide couldn't do the trick

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

Going third-party in FPTP elections with such polarized parties as today only splits the vote. Without major election reform it's just a plain old bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

The point is not to win national elections outright, but to solidify a base and create a nation-spanning organization capable of challenging the two parties first in local, state and then finally national elections

That requires electoral sacrifices in the meantime, sacrifices that at this point in time should be easy to make considering dems aren't winning elections anyway