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They need to organized this momentum into a proper party, maybe call it the labor party or the progress party. But most importantly they need to not be scared to use actural leftist rhetoric and appeal to class conscious workers.
What about Working Families party?
Tbh I dont really take them seriously
Onward Together Party
EverForward Party
Inspired Collaboration Party
Positive Frontier Party
Disagree. There are a huge number of republican working class that need representation, and who are not the enemy.
The anti-1% party is a much more viable proposition than going left vs right.
Show me the conservative critique of billionaires. I know how that works on the left, but the right is about preserving power structures
billionaires Don't Share Our Values™️
QED
Unless one of your values is to take wealth from those that don't share your values, this is not a critique that will lead to meaningful corrections. I guess that could be a conservative value, but now you're just doing identity politics.
There are a few Republican representatives that claim to be pro-union, which has gotten them into office. I don't know how much they can do when both parties have been generally anti-union.
Anti-1% is left vs right
I don't believe this is true, the right won the last election but people outside the 1% voted for Trump.
You don't have to be the 1% to vote for them.
Leftism literally originates from replacing monarchy and aristocracy with democracy, fighting the 1% is leftism.
The Democrats tried that, they tried appealing to the mythical "centrist conservative" and look where that got them, it has been proven to be a failing strategy. We dont need another "bipartisan" Democrat-like party, we need a workers party.
I'm trying to say that process is made by classifying voters in terms other than left/center/right.
There are only two political classes, those who are class conscious and those who are not. It matters not what word they're called, only that as many people became class conscious as possible.
I can't disagree with your definition, but I can't believe people who are not class conscious always vote republican.
Sometimes they vote Democrat
I mean, I would love that, but if we start running a third party in national elections against the Democrats and Republicans from the left, the Republicans will win even more. If we can't get FPTP changed I'm afraid the only option I can see is to destroy and rebuild the Democrats.
Well I guess there's a possibility that when Trump dies the Republicans implode. I'd love to see it but their voters always toe the line. I think this time it will be whoever right wing media decides are the new bosses.
Like Democrats, many Republicans are just voting for the "lesser evil" and aren't really loyal to their party. They just hate Democrats.
A new party sidesteps and allows those "lesser evil" Republican working class voters to jump ship. They will not ever vote for a Democrat, so stop being Democrats.
This idea is so simple, and the idea of it changing the course of history would be such a dumb-timeline thing, that I am 100% convinced it would work.
It would give them the ability to talk some harsh shit on Democrats, which could work on some Republicans. But I'd still worry that the effectiveness of their propaganda machine and the tendency of conservatives to fall in line and do as they're told would spoil it.
Bernie is already third party
Why does nobody know anything about American Politics, including the Americans...
He's independent, meaning no party
Because hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to make real information seem as confusing and boring as possible
Now, this? This is hilarious right here.
Some people think independent is a party. Like the Independent Party. Pretty silly but yeah. That's why I changed from telling people I was independent to saying I'm unaffiliated with any party.