• @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.