Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich?

• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can you elaborate please, cause USA doesn’t have a real left party at the minute, does it?

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This video gives a great visual explanation of why third parties in US politics can only be spoilers. They cannot build anything.

    youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk?si=WRctK96W6GrJJO2S

    America already has “real left” parties like the Peace & Freedom party and the Green party. Starting yet another tiny party to occupy the left will add nothing. And trying to grow any of these third parties can only do one thing: take votes from Democrats, thereby helping Republicans.

    It’s easy to say “USS doesn’t have a real left party” but most people who care about that would rather not hurt Democrats and help Republicans, because Democrats are at least closer to the left out of the two major parties, even if neither is as far left as we would like.

    The only option is to join the Democratic party and attempt to shift it left. This is exactly what America’s most prominent 3 leftists have done: AOC, Dennis Kucinich, and Bernie Sanders. They know that 3rd parties are a death wish. This is an objective fact. Everyone who cares about the left needs to grow up, accept this, and move on. Just like Bernie has. You don’t see him falling for a 3rd party. And he’s clearly a “real leftist” by any measure.

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, FPTP. Im British mate. I know all about it.

      By real left, Im talking real terms, not relative to other parties.

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I answered you, mate. These parties DO exist in the US they are just really small, and this is why.

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