I think it’s time we start taking third parties seriously.

Not just as protest votes or long-shot statements, but as real vehicles for change.

The two-party system in this country has locked working-class people into a cycle of disappointment—every election feels like choosing the lesser evil, and meanwhile the things we actually need get pushed further out of reach.

When I voted for the Socialist Workers Party (no regrets!!), it wasn’t because I thought they’d win. It was because their platform actually reflects what I care about—jobs, housing, education, and peace.

I still love the Green Party too. Imagine if all working-class voters backed leaders like Eugene Debs, Ralph Nader, or Dr. Jill Stein.

These weren’t fringe lunatics—they were people calling for things we should already have: universal healthcare, a living wage, free public housing, and tuition-free universities.

That’s not utopia. That’s what other countries already do, while we dump billions into endless wars and police surveillance.

Meanwhile, our government lets corporations loot the planet and strip basic dignity from everyday people.

We could’ve built something by now. Something better.

Instead, we’re stuck in a system that props up fossil fuel giants, greenlights genocide, and ignores the climate clock ticking louder every year.

Voting third party isn’t throwing your vote away—it’s refusing to vote for your own oppression.

If enough of us did it together, they wouldn’t be third parties anymore. They’d be the people’s party.

Yet instead of realising this, most Lemmy’s still just stay mad that people like me didn’t vote for the duopoly. lol

  • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    The list of greens in office starts with David Spanagel, who is on the board of Library trustees in Littleton, MA until 2028. Negligible like background radiation. Does anybody on that list hold a position that actually matters?

    • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Doesn’t matter. You were implying that Greens only run in presidential elections. That’s just not true.

      Many Lemmys thought that Green Party in the last election was just for spoiler. That’s not true either. Stein was running for pres long before Trump even entered the picture. Plus, even if every single person that voted for any third party, would have voted for Harris, she still would have lost the election.

      The amount of non-voters added up to more than all of the third party voters combined.

      Most green candidates run in local elections.

      Green Party 2024 candidates: https://www.gp.org/2024_candidates

      Green Party 2025 candidates: https://www.gp.org/2025_candidates

      Green Party 2026 candidates: https://www.gp.org/2026_candidates

      Does anybody on that list hold a position that actually matters?

      You can say that about any smaller election in any city. Are you saying smaller local elections don’t matter? That seems an odd thing for you to think, since your initial complaint was that “The American green party pretty much just comes out of the woods every 4 years to run for president.”

      And if you believe that they are so insignificant, then you shouldn’t be upset or worried that Green Candidates are running. Because you think they are “Negligible like background radiation.” So nothing to get worked up over, right?

      Heck, the Green Party got more votes than the Socialist party I voted for. lol

      • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        And when the greens campaign, they try to win over Democrat voters, instead of non-voters or Republicans. If they’re genuinly interested in winning the election, they would go after all 3 groups instead of just Democrats. And if they’d have any genuine interest in their political goals, they’d be mindful of the spoiler effect. The greens are undermining the working class, and the best thing that can be said about them is that they’re incompetent.

        • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          If they’re genuinly interested in winning the election, they would go after all 3 groups instead of just Democrats.

          And I am sure they’d love that. Republican are more than welcome to vote for Green too. You seem to think that people don’t know how to think for themselves and vote for whoever they want.

          And if they’d have any genuine interest in their political goals, they’d be mindful of the spoiler effect.

          There is no such thing as a spoiler effect. Firstly, even like I said earlier, even if every single person that voted third party in the last election, would have voted for Harris instead, she still wouldn’t have won. That’s how big the margin was that she lost by. lmao

          Secondly, people should vote for who they want. So there is no spoiler, because if someone wanted to vote for Green then they would vote for Green and not Democrats. People get to vote for whoever they want. That’s not spoiling. That’s democracy.

          You seem to think that people don’t know how to think for themselves and shouldn’t vote for whoever they want. How is it a spoiler effect when someone doesn’t like your candidate so they choose to vote for a different candidate?!

          Using your logic, I can say that Harris had a spoiler effect because people voted for her rather than my Socialist Party! lol

          best thing that can be said about them is that they’re incompetent.

          So if they are so incompetent, then ya shouldn’t worried about them or bothered by them. Right? :)

          The democrats deserved to lose to Trump because they bow down to corporate interests just like the Republicans do. Both parties are the same!

          Thanks, friend!