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  • Third time support has exceeded 60%, along with 2017 and 2021
  • Republicans primarily behind the increase, with 58% now in favor
  • Political independents remain group most likely to favor third party
  • centof
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    1 year ago

    If any of you actually want to work towards a solution to this look into Forward Party. Forward Party is trying to make third parties actually viable through ranked-choice voting and open, nonpartisan primaries. Once states move past First Past the Post voting, it will actually be possible to vote for third parties without acting as a spoiler.

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        1 year ago

        Feel free to dismiss any new idea with baseless name calling if you want.

        Unlike Forward Party, No Labels is actually funded and made up of mainstream US politicians and interest groups. No Labels is an establishment group pushed by right wing(republican) corporate interests. Forward Party is an outsider third party that is ignored by the established media outlets because they don’t control it.

        The linked video assumes the left right spectrum is communism vs capitalism which is NOT how it is used in the US. In the US left is dems and right is repubs to the general population. That is the meaning of Forward’s Slogan in this context.

        They are saying both of the democratic and republican parties are wrong and we need a different approach that does not conform to party lines. That is exactly what the OP shows.

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          I watched interview on mainstream media about the forward party. Yang refused to be nailed to any position, and wouldn’t say that maybe self-described Nazis shouldn’t have a place in his party. So, it wasn’t that the establishment is trying to hide it, they just aren’t a thing of any substance.

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            I watched interview on mainstream media about the forward party. Yang refused to be nailed to any position, and wouldn’t say that maybe self-described Nazis shouldn’t have a place in his party.

            What interview was that? I would appreciate a source.

            I don’t exactly trust most mainstream corporate outlets to not take the statements out of context.

            they just aren’t a thing of any substance.

            That is your opinion and a rather ill-defined one. What do you mean by they aren’t a thing of substance? It’s not exactly like any of US politics is filled with currently filled with ‘substance’ anyway.

            Their stance is that the 2 major parties aren’t representative of the people’s wishes. Their solution to that problem is largely the same solution proposed and massively upvoted in this thread: voting reform in the form of Racked Choice Voting and Nonpartisian Primaries.