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Why don't Leftist just create their own political party? (self.AskUSA)
submitted 4 weeks ago by BadmanDan to c/[email protected]
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Straight forward question. If leftist hate the Democratic Party so much, why don’t they all come together and create their own party. Have their own primaries, campaigns, candidates, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

There already are multiple leftist parties in the US. The Green Party is the main one, but there are others.

The issue is that they don't get much press coverage, and a lot of people use the argument that if leftists split off from the Democrats and divide, then the Republicans will win. That keeps a lot of people from voting for those parties.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Your greens are heavily compromised, if I’m not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Jill Stein has had dinner with Putin, so yeah, just a wee bit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

no, she didn't.

[–] lettruthout 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ranked choice voting could help with this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

A couple of states do have ranked choice voting, but it definitely should be implemented for all.

[–] themeatbridge 2 points 4 weeks ago

A bit, but Star Voting is better in every way (except awareness).

[–] themeatbridge 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Green Party is not leftist.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What is your reasoning for this? According to their very own website, they support a lot of common leftist talking points.

From their Wikipedia page:

The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; grassroots democracy; anti-war; anti-racism.

[–] themeatbridge 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What they say and what they do are different things.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean, it's not like they're able to do much because they don't have much political power. I'm genuinely curious as to the things that they have done that make you say that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Only attempting relevance during a presidential election, then quickly disappearing after is the only bit needed.

  • No member of the Green Party has ever been elected to any federal office.
  • only 3 have ever been elected to any state office.
  • they have had about a dozen people elected to small offices, town level.
  • Their prevalence in presidential elections greatly outsizes their representation in any other position, and have been shown to pull votes from Democrats.
  • There have been numerous documented instances of Republican candidates/their team coordinated directly with the Green Party.
  • Russia has covertly promoted the Green Party online for about a decade.
  • Stein has repeatedly appeared on Russian media.
  • One of the VP candidates actually called NATO "gangster states"
  • Stein claims Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine - a talking point straight out of Russia.

The Green Party is a tool of the Republican Party, nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are you confusing what parties claim with what they actually believe and will actually do?

[–] BadmanDan 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But who is this Dems voting base? Are they mostly liberal? If so, they wouldn’t go anywhere else anyways. But I feel like they’ll be a lot of disenfranchised MAGA voters by 2028, that would be willing to support anything other than the democrats.

[–] bahbah23 9 points 4 weeks ago

Right wing media would immediately jump on promoting the alternate party as horrible communist socialist liberal whatever other words they like to use to scare an anger their base, and the net result would be the same.