Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich?
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 week agoCan you elaborate please, cause USA doesn’t have a real left party at the minute, does it?
Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich?
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 week agoCan you elaborate please, cause USA doesn’t have a real left party at the minute, does it?
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.
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.
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.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Theyre small cause of a lack of funding and an education system and media that tells people anything left is evil.
In the UK we had Jeremy Corbyn run for PM in 2017, in spite of a character assassination that said he supported the IRA and would ruin the country (That was never backed up with any facts…), and people saying Labour just get us in debt (Again, bollocks.), he still came incredibly close to winning, much like Sanders.