Imagine thinking the green party
Quote by PrincessC
Firstly, the use of “protest voting” is indicative of your bias. Voting for whoever you want is a right of democracy. Either that’s sacrosanct or not, this isn’t a buffet where you can pick the parts you want and ignore the rest. While this is an extremely emotive topic, it’s alarming to me how quickly people want to silence dissenters. It’s giving authoritarian in disguise.
Secondly, I wasn’t advocating that a vote for a third party would assist - actually I only mentioned how ideological tensions are bad for pulling voters.
But since you asked, long term this would redistribute power to additional parties who would in turn be a closer representation of their constituents beliefs and would enact them. This would also remove the dichotomy of your voting pool and create a more moderate democracy based on multiple views rather than two opposing ones.
The failure of the left to create a truly compelling opposition is on them, not on people who notice it.
So basically it wouldn’t help. It wouldn’t do anything besides signal to the democrats that they need to go more left to get the vote from far left progressives. So a protest. A protest vote.
Do you know how many members of the Green Party are in office now? Do you know what party progressives like AOC and Bernie Sanders are a part of? Voting in more and more AOCs is what’s effective… Not taking power from them.
I mean how long a timeline are we looking at? In order for a third party to do anything they have to win three branches of the government. That’s not going to happen. And if it does you have to believe that they wouldn’t be corrupt at all which if you look at the green party’s history, is not the case.
It’s easy to be idealist and pseudo-revolutionary online about voting for a third party when you’re not the one that would have to live through 4 years of a Trump presidency. An orange pig who has hinted at wanting to be a dictator, been caught mishandling my nations secrets, mishandling the pandemic, fanning the flames of racism, increasing the national dept more than anyone before him, embarrassing the United States every time he opens his mouth, been found to be a , gassed American citizens to clear the way for a photo-op, freed terrorist leaders, attempted a coup and on and on.
I’m sorry but this is like deciding to go on a diet while stranded in the desert with only junk food to survive. We need to find our way out of the desert (end the maga movement) then go on a diet (vote for more progressives). Vote in enough progressives to do to the Democratic Party what the MAGA movement did to the Republican Party.
This whole third party vote now to help Trump win and cement the idea that being MAGA stupid wins, is dangerous.