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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoYou let the Green party go. They can’t get 1% of the vote, haven’t won an election in any state, it’s past time to give up the illusion that they are a real party.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoIt sounds like they’ve been pretty insignificant. Which better idea has worked well over the last 30 years?
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoTaking over a major party by challenging center candidates in primaries and winning in the general elections. See the Tea Party / Red Hat takeover of the Republican party. Progressives need to do the same to the Democrats.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoWhy didn’t they try that sooner?
You let the Green party go. They can’t get 1% of the vote, haven’t won an election in any state, it’s past time to give up the illusion that they are a real party.
It sounds like they’ve been pretty insignificant. Which better idea has worked well over the last 30 years?
Taking over a major party by challenging center candidates in primaries and winning in the general elections.
See the Tea Party / Red Hat takeover of the Republican party.
Progressives need to do the same to the Democrats.
Why didn’t they try that sooner?
Not yet…