Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?

eezeebee, 25 days ago

We need to get people back into talking about politics that don’t involve Trump or Biden

We need to stop assuming everyone on the internet is from USA

dukethorion, 25 days ago

Not a shower thought.

paysrenttobirds, 25 days ago

I agree, but evidently you need to put local in bold because it’s never what people are thinking about in these nonlocal forums. But that’s where third parties will come from unless it’s some celebrity case, who will most likely coopt an existing party, resulting in the same two party system and a dramatically shifted politics that leaves half the country without ideological representation.

roofuskit, 25 days ago

I’d much rather spend my energy doing something useful like talking to them about the importance of pushing for ranked choice voting.

Apytele, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

Cool, but people can do this right now on the toilet while shitting. They can start working on that other stuff when they actually have time. Baby steps here. Also you need third parties running things before you can get that done anyway because democrats won’t do that for the exact same reason they’ll never actually get rid of the Republicans.

roofuskit, 25 days ago

…wikipedia.org/…/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Unit…

You’re straight up wrong.

Bongles, 25 days ago

Why would I be able to talk to other locals about a third option from my toilet but not about ranked voting from my toilet?

azimir, 25 days ago

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) or literally any other preference voting system has mathematically and demonstrably better outcomes than the First Past the Post system most of the US uses today.

If We the People want to keep having a democratic republic that even remotely represents us, we need to keep fighting for better access to voting rights, fair districting, and improved voting systems like RCV.

Consider joining up and helping out: fairvote.org

realitista, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

I voted third party for 30 years straight. That all ended with Trump. If he wins, democracy is dead in the USA. There’s no coming back from that. I was never a “lesser of two evils” guy, but faced with the option of living in a fascist dictatorship, you’d better believe I am now.

And as for Biden, he was my least favorite democratic candidate, but now that he’s in office, I’d say he’s been one of the most effective presidents we’ve had in decades. Student loan relief, fighting to reduce child poverty, and doing a half decent job of keeping WWIII at bay in Ukraine. I think a Cold War era president which will bend to the workers movement and social democracy is about as good as it’s going to get.

I have no regrets voting for a major party candidate in this election whatsoever.

But if your friends are Trump supporters, by all means, be my guest.

Apytele, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

I said local. I would encourage you to vote democratic at the state and national level but that’s not what this is about. Everyone pretty much already knows who they’re voting for in that part of the election. It’s the mayors and school board people we need to flip now too though if we ever want to get out of this. A pause button only helps you if you do something with the time you bought. The fact that you still had to make this conversation about the national race IS the psyop.

realitista, 25 days ago

Yes for local elections you need to investigate all the options and see which one is best. It usually doesn’t divide cleanly upon party lines and not all 3rd party candidates are great. Wouldn’t be something where you could have Lemmy sharing their favorites for all voting districts though, there are too many.

TheFinn, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

It’s a bit late in the game to drum up support for third party candidates. Republicans have been playing the long game and pushing local elections hard right for years, decades even. You can’t jump in a few months before elections and expect to make any difference other than ensuring the Republican base wins again.

Ranked choice is the only solution.