• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Well.

    Have fun trying to make a 3rd party viable when no 3rd party is trying to be viable and when their most popular candidate only got half of a single percent of the total votes cast in 2024.

    And have fun doing that before 2026 or 2028.

    Yeah, I’ll continue advocating for reforming an existing entity instead of chasing unicorns.

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      5 hours ago

      I’ll continue advocating for reforming an existing entity instead of chasing unicorns.

      Almost every high functioning democracy in the world has managed to populate a credible multi-party assembly. To pick some random examples, the UK has ~14 different parties seated in its legislature, Canada has 5, France 12, Sweden 10, Germany 9, the Philippines 13, Japan 10. These aren’t cherry-picked either, you can pretty much choose any country and go have a look at its assembly makeup, and you’ll consistently see that the ones with only two parties are… not good company to be in.

      The only thing stopping America from electing a government that represents the views of its people, are cheerleaders for the status quo using circular logic like yours.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 hours ago

      You’re welcome to keep advocating for reform. Just be aware that Democrats will almost certainly pull out every dirty trick in the book, including going full Fascist, if a reformist ever stands to win.

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      8 hours ago

      And have fun doing that before 2026 or 2028.

      Have fun trying to reform the Democrats by then…