• f314@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Can these guys please just start their own political party and maybe start dragging the US out of the two party hellhole while saving it from acute fascism?

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      They would have the added benefit of not having another set of oligarchs behind them hoping that this current set of far shittier oligarchs gets removed.

      Bernie doesn’t need the billionaire class, he showed that by the grassroots donors that supported his 2016 campaign.

      If they actually broke off and formed the Solidarity Party that sought to pick the best platforms from both the D and R parties and pursued policies of wealth redistribution and breaking down barriers to a true free market system, they would win.

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        Are there any actual good R platforms? For the last 20 years or so, their platform has basically been, whatever hurts the democrats, or is the opposite of the democrats. I feel like you have to go back pretty far to find R policies that are actually just differences on how we should govern.

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      First past the post systems will always end up in a two party system. We have to get rid of it or it will always end that way.

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        Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We’re all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).

        E: typos

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      Id be cool with them funding progressives to primary everyone in the Democratic party who’s a chump and an idiot.

      So like 80% of the party.