We need the ballot access that the Democratic Party has to get any success much beyond local offices, maybe county. Only three minor parties had ballot access in more than 10 states in 2024. Over 99% of state and federal legislatives offices are either Republican or Democratic. Zero electoral votes have gone to a third party presidential candidate since 1968 (and Perot received just shy of 19% of the national popular vote in 1992).
Call me when they remove the corporate interests
Agreed
DNC listens to Dem voters about nominees.
They nominees are the ones who win the primaries, regardless of who the DNC wants the nominees to be. Progressive candidates need to run and progressive voters need to show up.
I will add one more thing, it’s okay to be wrong
The people who wrap up their world view under the cloak of religion can't admit they were wrong because that would have to mean their faith was wrong.
While there may be an element of the language you use, as a progressive, Fox News has been shown to actively mis/dis-inform their viewers. So if they're watching Fox there's a fair chance that the reporting they hear on these issues is either drastically skewed or entirely non-existent.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/07/21/a-rigorous-scientific-look-into-the-fox-news-effect/
4/4 means 4 beats per measure (top number) and each beat is a quarter more (bottom number). So you can have a melody that resolves in a single measure and repeats every measure. Or 2 measures. Or 4 measures. Resolution is when you come back to the root note of the key that the song is in. Waltzes are in 3/4 time. So you'll count 3 beats per measure but it would typically take 4 measures to resolve a melody.
if we all wait around for the Dems to save us. If the Democrats want my vote, they need to put AOC on the ticket. If they want to run actual progressives,
This right here is what I'm saying. Anybody who meets the requirements can declare their candidacy in the party primary. We don't need the party to turn around and say "oh hey here's a bunch of candidates for you to pick from." Was AOC given to us by the party? NO! She just up and ran against an incumbent because she saw Bernie do it. And the voters in the district showed up and voted for her. Fuck what "the party" wants and use their process to get what we want! It's not up to the party to put someone on the ticket, it's up to that someone to register to be on the primary ballot and the god damn primary voters to show up and vote!
The DNC playing favorites in 2016.
They did, but it didn't matter, because more people showed to the primaries to vote for Clinton than did for Bernie. She had more pledged delegates, elected by the primary voters, going into the convention and the superdelegates didn't even need to vote for her to win the nomination. The party even changed the convention rules starting in 2018 so that the superdelegatees don't even vote unless the pledged delegates (the ones elected by the primary voters) can't elect a candidate in the first vote.
More likely I won’t be able to vote by then because I’m trans.
Stay safe and know that you are still valued and welcome by millions of people.
Edit, I didn’t it down votes you by the way that was somebody else. We can disagree without a petty down vote war
Agree on that. Cheers!
I don't think they've participated in them consistently enough and in a large enough scale for it. Either that or there simply aren't enough progressive voters to defeat the centrists and neoliberals. In which case splintering into a third party essentially means permanent Republican majority. Everybody wants to cite Bernie as proof that a progressive isn't allowed to win when the reality is simply that more people voted for Hillary in 2016 (not a single superdelegate vote was needed to give her the win at the convention, and the DNC changed the rules in 2018 onwards so that superdelegates don't even vote in the convention unless the pledged delegates can't elect a nominee in the first round) and the same is true of Biden in 2020.
Indeed I agree. Which is why I'm advocating for progressive candidates to run in the Democratic party primaries, and for the progressive voters to actually support them in those primaries.
Second, only 19% of respondents said they supported displacing the people of Gaza to other countries, including 32% of Republicans and 12% of Democrats, while 34% opposed the move, including 28% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats.
1 in 5 isn't a very fine-grained metric. 19% of US Americans is a lot of people. I'm glad it's not bigger, but still wish it was a lot smaller.
I call bullshit on the vote splitting.
So you're either voting a right-leaning candidate or a left-leaning candidate. If there are multiple candidates from one of those two halves of the spectrum on the ballot where the recipient of the most votes wins, the vote for that half is split and lowers the threshold for the most popular candidate from the other half.
And so far, the Democrats have been fucking useless. So what we vote for a useless Democrat, or a fascist, or split the ticket and maybe someone worth a shit will win.
So don't vote for them. Get a progressive to run in the next primary and then go vote in the primary to replace the useless person. When I advocate for voting in the Democratic primaries, it's not to support incumbents like Pelosi and Schumer. They can fuck all the way off for failing so badly. It's to utilize the infrastructure and ballot access that the Democratic party has that no third party can come remotely close to competing with. After decades of existence neither the Green party nor the Libertarian party were on the ballot in all 50 states in 2024. By all means, go 3rd party in local, even county, races when they have a chance in the polls.
The primaries are open to any candidate who meets the requirements (ie filing deadline and signatures from the district, etc). Don't rely on a party to provide you a candidate. Fucking go participate in the process to select better candidates (but they also have to actually fucking run in those primaries, too).
In 2016, folks voted against Hillary. Get that, many folks saw Hillary as the greater of two evils and voted for Trump.
90% of Bernie voters stayed with Democratic party and voted for Hilary
If Bernie had been on the ticket he could have pulled votes from both of them and then maybe Hillary would have won Trump would have won or Bernie would have won. We don’t know.
But he wasn't, because progressive voters didn't show up enough in the primaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate#2016_election
Sanders initially said that the candidate with the majority of pledged delegates should be the nominee; in May 2016, after falling behind in the elected delegate count, he shifted, pushed for a contested convention and arguing that, “The responsibility that superdelegates have is to decide what is best for this country and what is best for the Democratic Party.”[46][54] Ultimately, Clinton won the nomination without relying on the votes of superdelegates; she led Sanders by a substantial number of elected delegates (from primary and caucus votes), as well by a substantial margin in the popular vote.
More people voted for Hillary, so she was the nominee. And that's my point. You can overcome
It’s time progressives break ranks with the duo poly. And if that means splitting the ticket then so be it.
It doesn't fucking have to mean splitting the vote. Just fucking vote for progressives in the god damn primaries!
I will say this, I won’t get off the couch to vote for Newsome. As he has already proven that he is perfectly willing to throw me under the bus for power.
If the alternative is measurably worse, then you are just making easier for them to win by reducing the number of votes they need to receive in order to win.
Progressives will be trying to build an alternative to the corporatist zionist dems.
But how? There are already multiple parties beyond the big two. Minor parties who have existed for decades. But only 3 of them were on the ballot in more than 10 states in 2024. There's just no way, in voting math, that a new party can just drop in and take place. Local and county seats (your link about SF LatinX group), sure. But state and federal 3rd parties are a pipe dream.
If there are enough progressives to beat a Democratic candidate (not even win the general but just beat the Democratic candidate), then there enough to win the Democratic primary. And then there will be a chance to beat the Republican rather than splitting the vote. And if there aren't, then splitting the vote just means more MAGA.
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