No one has said it in this thread, and there’s a lot of people talking about how they wish there was another option:
I’m voting for the Party for Socialism and Liberation and you can too!
They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to Israel.
There are many alternatives.
Pass electoral reform first IMO. Unless critical mass is achieved, we would be spoiling the election. This is why passing electoral reform is of utmost importance.
Democrats clearly understand the faults of First Past The Post voting. Go on any platform and suggest voting third party and the liberals will come in droves to explain the faults of the FPTP voting system.
Okay, you understand the voting system is flawed… then why do we still use FPTP voting? How can you explain these mathematical flaws to people considering voting third party and NOT do anything about the voting system? You don’t get to have both.
I don’t buy that. Both major parties, all the donors, the media, the lobbying groups and all the party machines in all fifty states are heavily invested the system we have.
I’m not gonna wait till we tip the whole system over to record a vote that actually represents my political positions.
If the two major parties are afraid of third party spoilers then they can adopt the platforms of those third parties.
Ok, then just be aware that when the pile of votes for 3rd party isn’t anywhere near either candidates pile your vote won’t matter. Biden and Trump will get the majority of votes and you will lose your chance to impact one of the most important elections in US history because of naive idealisms.
And neither party is afraid of the 3rd party, they use it. They take reasonable minded people who would never vote Republican and push them to 3rd party to weaken the Democrats votes. It’s exactly what they did with Bernie and how Trump won. They had massive turn out for the 3rd party that did absolutely nothing but split the Dems and allow the Republicans to be unified. A vote for 3rd party is a vote for Republicans, I know you don’t want to believe that reality but it’s true.
Being a Marxist in 2024 is clown shit as it is, but voting for Marxist-Leninist party in America is just baffling. The cherry on top is that the clown you’re planning to vote for has some mighty interesting policy proposals including:
- Seizing the 100 biggest corporations in the country
- Seize the agricultural and energy industries
- Repurpose the energy industry to generate exclusively renewable energy
- Expand the transportation system with all an electric fleet while no autoworker loses their job and millions of new, good paying jobs are going to be created
- Expand affirmative action discrimination
- Use the assets of the seized top 100 corporations as reparations for black people
- Cut the military budget by 90%
- Abolish NATO
- Support Russia against Ukraine and China against Taiwan
- Abolish AFRICOM specifically for some reason
- Abolish the CIA, NSA, and FBI
- Abolish the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Reserve
- Expose all of the America’s state secrets
- End all American sanctions on dictatorships such as Russia, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, etc
- Help aid the destruction of Israel
- Going on purges to lock up the “corrupt elite”
- Cancel all debt
- Eliminate inflation with an “across the board price freeze”
- Ban evictions and cap rent at 10% of income
- Tax all income and assets over 10 million over 100%
- Ban ownership of overseas assets
It’s like a bad joke, except nobody is laughing. The fact that there are people out there who are so mind numbingly ignorant of economics, government, social politics, history, and geopolitics that they actually think this brain damaged list of policies is a good idea is just sad. Claudia de la Cruz is so bad that she is unironically worse than Trump, and you have to try really, really hard to be worse than Trump. Literally a turd is better than Trump, so for her to be worse is just… wow. Do better, come on.
