• @Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    111 day ago

    I would believe them if their party EVER got anyone elected, even to state congress, in even a third of the states.

    • @meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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      141 day ago

      I said it once, I’ll say it again-

      Until ranked choice vote is established and the electoral college is abolished, there are no serious third parties.

      The most serious third party imo is the Forward Party, only because they have one platform which is RCV, and they are quietly working in local elections only. They aren’t running any candidates in federal elections, although they had a big win in helping Alaska switch to RCV for their congressional race, which nudged out Sarah Palin.

      With the forward party in conjunction with fairvote.org , they are laying the groundwork to create possibly the most revolutionary change to American politics ever.

      But in order to do that, we need to have elections. Vote Harris.

      • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        04 hours ago

        FPTP means there will be two viable candidates in each race, it doesn’t mean they’ll always be the same two parties. There are lots of races in deep blue areas that don’t have a viable Republican challengers where the Greens (if they were a real party) could mount a challenge. Sort of like the Justice Democrats, but making the play in an unopposed general election instead of the primary. Then they could caucus (or not I suppose) with the Democrats like the independents do.

    • TheTechnician27OP
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      1 day ago

      But they brag about five (5) whole Green Party members getting elected to state legislatures since 1985. You know, that’s like one (1) whole member every eight (8) years, which is a lot considering there are only thousands of state legislature positions across the US (some of which have such little competition fucking Buck Cluck could probably get elected to a few dozen of them). So I think your point is moot tbh.