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  • America doesn’t work like that. Due to the way the electoral system is set up only two parties can be viable at any given time. The only time you can create a new party is in a realignment, eg. When Lincoln formed the republican party as an explicitly anti slavery northern party and the democrats became the pro slavery southern party. Prior to that it was the whigs and the democrats, which were aligned around issues other than slavery.

    So unless the progressives can force a realignment along some new issue and subsume a major party, creating another party would just be handing a lot of elections over to the Republicans.

    This is why lemmy was so vehemently against Jill stein and the greens even though most people on here agree with her politics more than kamala, because they saw her as sabotaging the democrats chances and handing the election to trump.



  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldRicky Marx
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    20 days ago

    Arms without organization are useless. If you’re thinking about getting a gun for defense against the government first figure out who you’re going to use that gun with.

    Individually owning a gun for the sake of owning a gun does nothing for the cause and is just posturing.

    but I have to buy one now because there gonna stop selling them

    That is gun industry propaganda to get you to buy more guns.