There are nearly 5 months unaccounted for in this meme.
It takes him a while to change expressions.
LMFAO
My big wish is multi-winner STAR where possible.
Doesn’t just make viable 3rd parties a reality, but makes it incredibly likely for them to get a leg into the race a lot sooner.
Instituting it at the congressional level can also eliminate the traditional stresses of coalition building that affect other multi-partisan democracies, because now when the government experiences a no confidence vote and the leader has to resign, we don’t need new elections and new coalition talks, just go back to the original coalition vote results and promote the next guy in charge into the officer position that was vacated, voilà, new governing coalition ready to go.
I know STAR. Can you explain the multi-winner variety?
Basically for a race with multiple open seats, just keep repeating the “compare the top two rated candidates” step filling each seat with the winner of the comparison until all seats are filled, doesn’t just fill seats though, because the win matrix can also be used as a list of succession in case of recalls or deaths or resignations that’d leave a vacancy.
We’d see a lot of districts seat all dems and reps at the outset, but over time you’d see a much more diverse cast and a much less party hierarchy controllable process.
Might be nice if most of those third parties ran for lower offices once in a while too rather just go for the highest rung on the ladder.
You don’t see too many Greens running for state legislature… or even city council. Sure, one or two here or there, but no collective effort. The Libertarians barely have their shit together and yet they still constantly field candidates up and down the ballot.
The Green Party does run candidates in more left-leaning areas… Not that they do a whole lot better in those races, but they do try more than just POTUS
Those candidates would probably do better as independent, for all the party support they don’t get because people like jill stein blow it all on a useless presidential bid.
And let’s say, hypothetically, a miracle does happen and she wins the election. She has zero support from congress, a congress that more or less hates her. There’s not a lot she’s going to be able to do, considering.
You’re right that Stein would have very little support in Congress if she won, but that’s not in the realm of possibility, but to say that lower office runs would do better as independents misses some of the peculiarities of the American electoral system:
- Elections in the United States are longer, more burdened with minutiae and uniquely expensive compared to other democracies. Without the organizational support of a 3rd party (mostly libertarian and green parties in the US as others lack numbers and resources), candidates struggle to even get ballot access for lack of money and volunteers getting signatures and clearing regulatory steps
- Speaking of regulatory hurdles, running a presidential candidate every four years in enough states maintains ballot access for down-ticket races
So you’re right that independent runs wouldn’t have the baggage that comes with third party association, but you’re missing that there are very real benefits to that association.
Of course, if we had public campaign financing and rank choice voting, working class voters could unite and not be divided against one another… Almost like it’s that way by design 🤷♂️
What… benefits…?
how much funding has down-ballot candidates ever gotten from the green party? Go ahead. Publish the numbers.
how much campaigning does Jill or other national green leaders do for the state office candidates? (none?)
Green party candidates are basically independents who align with a certain je ne sais quoi. they build their own campaign, source their own funds, and generally have extremely limited party support. If there’s party help at all, it’s strictly at the local level, with multiple people helping each other out.
The national Green Party does extremely little to help down ballot.
I don’t know about the other parties, but to my knowledge the only third party that has “significant” support down ballot are the libertarians, and even that is… dubious. yes. Elections are way more expensive than they should be.
But again, you’re missing my point: Bernie Sanders, as an independent, has done entire orders of magnitude more good runing for senator than Jill Stein has ever accomplished. He should be the model for how to get 3rd party influence at the federal level, not someone who has yet to win any election anywhere.
Ending all current us participation in conflicts while refocusing the EPA to actually do their jobs and investigate the massive open violations of current environmental law would be enough to improve things, and takes no permission from Congress as it’s already exclusively the purview of the executive.
She could also focus the IRS solely on wealthier tax dodgers and utilize the Sec to go after members of Congress and their families.
The president has gotten more and more power over the decades, we don’t need to pretend the office is powerless.
Here and there, as I said. No coordinated effort.
Good news green has more local offices than any other third party.
Cool. Where are their candidates?
Takes two seconds to find this information little buddy. Do better. https://www.gpelections.org/greens-in-office/
They have one example in Michigan (where I live), and he ran unopposed for trustee in Fenton Township.
Michigan has 1,240 Townships, 257 villages and 276 cities, and the greens have managed to get one position in one Township by running someone unopposed. Even the Libertarians have done better, as Wikipedia points out four current libertarian office holders in Michigan.
Or in reality, greens have more people in office than libertarians, but more importantly that candidate was not run, he ran as a registered member. You can do the same right now. I guarantee there are ten dozen empty local government positions with 100 miles of you right now.
See above, re: here and there.
Do you know how many elected position there are in this country?
A lot more than there are people willing to run for those positions, which is part of the problem. The other part is that it’s never good enough for you people. “The greens should start small run for local office.” They run more candidates for local office than all other third parties combined. Maybe, just maybe, the corporate lies you people repeat without thought nor pause are lies you can learn to live without.
What does not being able to find the people willing to join your party and run for office tell you about your party?
You read the exact opposite of the meaning there. There are more positions in government than people willing to run for them period. There are more funded candidates that get a salary from their political party to hold an office, but the vast majority of elected government positions are held by people without a party, because quite frankly political parties are stupid, worthless, and inherently anti democratic.
I’m sorry you hate local government, and I’m sorry you’re ignorant about how politics work outside the pointless sideshow that happens every four years, but that does not mean the greens don’t have a proven track record of getting into office.
They’re using the third party for what they were intended for, to run interference on the winning side.
Any third party that’s really serious should be building candidates from the ground up, running in local elections where they could win the small seats and have an influence on policies which reflect their goals. That would not only gain experience for those individuals, it would build awareness of the party itself. Those candidates could then run for nonpartisan state offices, again building awareness and acceptance as well as their experience. Nobody should just be jumping into the Presidential election from some idiotic unrelated background like real estate or reality show hosting or stealing from cancer children or bankrupting their own casino… Oops, my brain went off the rails there, good thing I’m not responsible for anything important.
This is ahistoric. Every single successful or near successful third party went straight for the presidency.
So vote green, got it.
I’m all about ranked choice voting. Don’t advocate spoiler voting, spend the next four year term working on getting ranked choice voting initiatives off the ground. Also Jill Stein really seems like a Russian plant anyway based on the photo that’s been circulating around so even if we had RCV I wouldn’t be voting for her…
RCV still has spoilers, it’s just they happen differently. Mostly commonly in three-way competitive races, but they can technically happen under any number of candidates greater than two with any level of support.
Cardinal methods don’t have mathematical spoilers, though a new candidate can change voter behavior. But, that’s possible under any system.
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But bOtH sIdEs
…what?
Booooth siiiiiiides
It just doesn’t seem like it makes any sense here
When your party supports genocide vs. When the other party supports genocide.
Which party/candidate are you talking about?
Kamala “Palestinians deserve dignity and security” Harris?
Or
Donald “Israel must finish the job” Trump?
Impossible to tell, really…
You’re illustrating my point. Kamala has some empty words while promising no change in US policy to Israel, which her boss continues to fully support in an actual genocide. You look at this and go “but my party actually means well!”
Been saying this every time the subject it brought up. The Green Party is nowhere to be found three years of every four, and even in the election year- they seem to offer a lot of shit with no clear path to actually make it happen.
I think we’re finding out that they’ve always been a spoiler party. They were never meant to actually get elected. Just divide and distract.
And the did this VERY effectively. Just look at lemmy if you want a microcosm of how that shit works.
If they were wanting to make a real difference, we’d see them on local ballots advocating for alternative voting systems like STAR or ranked-choice voting. Like, that should be their #1 priority.
My local Green party does that: https://losangeles.cagreens.org/issues
A comment so nice you made it five times!
Doh!
I think Nader truly wanted to drive change. But since he’s been gone the party hasn’t done much of anything to be taken seriously.
Exactly. And what is super annoying about this, is that to most people, it’s painfully obvious what they’re up to.
MAGA exists to round up all the full-blown idiots and the Green Party exists to round up all the would-be idiots still on the fence. It’s so incredibly obvious!
And yet there are so many people that think people like Shill Stein have their best interests in mind.
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They have the same mindset as maga assuming this person who has never actually done anything to help them has their best interests at heart. So frustrating to see that level of cognitive dissonance. Literally impossible to have a conversation with either of those groups.
I still think Howie Hawkins was a really good candidate though
If they were wanting to make a real difference, we’d see them on local ballots advocating for alternative voting systems like STAR or ranked-choice voting. Like, that should be their #1 priority.
Does STAR have the problem of score voting that not giving every candidate either the maximum or minimum score (effectively approval voting) is effectively throwing half your vote away?
(also it looks like there’s a glitch because your comment appeared four times)
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If your third party doesn’t run candidates in local or state elections, it’s not a real political party.
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Honestly, third parties are a hard thing to discuss considering the two biggest ones in the US are fundamentally unserious. I still keep an eye on the Working Class Party locally.
Become the change you want to see. Organize. Get some elected to a school board or city council.
B-B-B-But Dems bad!1! (/s)
This has some real “you’re protesting wrong” vibes.
There’s lightyears of difference between “stop throwing paint on statues and blocking roads” and “stop sitting on your privilege with your vote and allowing the disemprivileged to be meat grindered because you think this time it’ll teach the incredibly privileged who happen to be nearest to you politically a lesson.”
This comment has some real I dont understand or acknowledge the consequences of my actions, vibes.
the consequences of my actions
Who is the president and who did you vote for last time?
Biden and Biden. Voted for Bernie in the primary, couldn’t get him to the nomination, then I put on my big boy pants and voted Biden because the alternative was Trump. It’s pretty simple.
And the consequences for your actions are drowning traps in the Rio Grande river, war in Europe, and genocide in the middle east. But you don’t understand or acknowledge the consequences of your actions; you project them onto your opponents out of power.
You have blood on your hands and big boy pants on your legs. But at least you get to infantilize people with dead families that you had a hand in killing.
A vote for a third party would have resulted in either the same consequence or worse. The difference is you get to pretend to be detached from it because you didn’t directly vote for the guy. Spare me the self righteous bullshit.
Genuinely curious, do you believe wrong ways to protest exist?
The time? When it counts least. The place? Abstract thought.
It most counts in the first 3.5 years…ya know, when there’s time to build enough support to do more than take away votes from the major party you’re nearest
Many Lemmy power users would say that you can’t criticize and protest an incumbent last year here, because there is an election coming up. It always counts, especially if it’s inconvenient. You might have had to cast a ballot for Biden if people didn’t speak up and demand better.
This don’t speak and fall in line rhetoric is why there is a continued rightward side. Obviously getting rid of first pass, electoral college, etc are the way to achieve real reform, but those will never be implemented without massive pressure. It happens locally, but exposure and understanding of these ideas is more impactful and reaches a larger audience when on a national stage when the whole country is watching.
(Vote Kamala, but demand better.)
Hank is grinning cause he’s hoping the people will do anything for 3.5 years. He’s then frowning because after not doing anything for 3.5 years the people talking about the duopoly and third parties chose the laziest option of voting against their interests in the only time in the last 4 years when the conclusion was actually forgone.
