Andrew Yang to launch a third party
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Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#2Wouldn’t this be a fourth party?
Edit: ah, “third party” is an expression in American politics. Learning something new every day.
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#3Wouldn’t this be a fourth party? Edit: ah, “third party” is an expression in American politics. Learning something new every day.
All the non-two-party parties are called third party. This keeps the two-parties front and center, where they think they belong.
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#4Seems like you'd have better luck trying to capture the GOP than start another party. There is a large population of Republican voters that is not really "conservative", but just anti-Democrat. Someone who captured this base while remaining appealing to some moderates/independents would do quite well.
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#53rd, that would be the Green Party, no?
There is also Libertarian, Democratic Socialists, Socialist, and a handful of loca parties that only show up in ballots during election season.
I wonder if this will be a true leftist party or simply another milquetoast Democrat-light party.
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#6Yang has never been my top choice, but I think he's generally a good dude. However a third party could be disastrous for the democrats, who can only just barely win elections due to the current structure of the electorate. Hopefully he will be more strategic than that, however. A third party could be really beneficial in some areas where democrats dominate everything.
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#7Wouldn’t this be a fourth party? Edit: ah, “third party” is an expression in American politics. Learning something new every day.
All the non-two-party parties are called third party. This keeps the two-parties front and center, where they think they belong.
The way US elections are run makes it very hard to have anything except two dominant parties. If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains (probably the Democrats since they have more institutional support at the moment).
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#8Didn't he get absolutely stomped in his last two runs?
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the non-two-party parties are called third party. This keeps the two-parties front and center, where they think they belong.
The way US elections are run makes it very hard to have anything except two dominant parties. If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains (probably the Democrats since they have more institutional support at the moment).
This is the natural consequence of our simple-majority single-ballot system. It so strongly favors the two leading parties that getting them to change it is basically impossible.
Re: Andrew Yang to launch a third party
#103rd, that would be the Green Party, no? There is also Libertarian, Democratic Socialists, Socialist, and a handful of loca parties that only show up in ballots during election season. I wonder if this will be a true leftist party or simply another milquetoast Democrat-light party.
I don't think a country that equates mainstream Democrats with communists has the stomach for actual leftism.