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.
And have fun doing that before 2026 or 2028.
Have fun trying to reform the Democrats by then...
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.
Democratic Party leadership is elected. There’s nothing stopping people from getting elected to the party and forcing change.
My take on this is that the left of the mainstream left does not like building institutions or changing them. Or their ideas are just not popular amongst the people who are politically engaged. Like I don’t think a true democratic socialist could get elected as a state party chair in any US state. If they wanted to do so they would have to build a movement similar to what conservatives did with the tea party and grow the actively engaged base of the party. Instead people just complain online and do nothing.
Have you ever heard the news of what happened to David Hogg? There is plenty stopping people from getting elected and making changes. Like a sudden revote to make sure he loses his seat he fought to win.
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