• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    but with the Republicans and Democrats doing everything they can to snuff out third parties we may never be a truly free country

    only free to think what is advertised to us via propaganda and galas Democrat/Republican conventions keep forgetting the lingo

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Ok sounds like you’re resigned to it.

      I’m all for building new candidates and platforms and “platforming” their ideas. But if that platform is used to try to kneecap the current “best” of our establishment leaders (bad as they are), then it’s all junk.

      By attacking your nearest neighbor (not so near, but nearest) all you’ve done is strengthened the much more chaotic, much more hateful other option.

      Build consensus, then shift the window.

      Edit look at how Bernie Sanders, AOC, or ilhan omar do business. They are generally aligned with the democratic party, but are pushing to the left. Great stuff, we need way, way more of them.