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How about starting a new political party? Is that too crazy to consider? Maybe this is the time to do it. I think one thing that happened recently is that we s
by rdtsc 10y ago
How about starting a new political party? Is that too crazy to consider? Maybe this is the time to do it.
I think one thing that happened recently is that we saw a desire for change. The number and enthusiasm of Sanders and Trump followers points to that. Maybe there is a place for a party to represent the views and values of those who followed Sanders.
Just thinking about it, there was a previously unknown, old, white, male politician who had such a tremendous following from so many people. What happened to that crowd? Those people are still out there, young, many in college, new graduates, minorities. It probably includes factory workers from Rust Belt and so on. There were so many followers despite media ignoring them in-large, despite the main DNC establishment disliking them and they still got so many votes.
I think doing the same thing over and over with the DNC as before, is probably not going to work. How feasible is to take all those invested billions and create a new movement instead of fighting fake news, why not generate good news. Instead of forgetting about the workers whose jobs are being automated away, perhaps talk about basic income in the way that would be accepted and not be seen as a humiliating hand-out.
What better to improve Democracy by creating a more parties to represent and replace the crusty old one with all their baggage and corruption.
- nemild 10y agoNew parties are hard. Still, I've found it interesting to think about a group that was only active in 3-5 evenly contested states, that collectively controlled a few percentage of the vote in those states. This small group might have tremendous power to set the agenda, either as a distinct party or one that influenced the presidential candidates.
- gshulegaard 10y agoI agree that more, equally influential, parties are better for the health of US politics...but there are many systemic traits that I believe are prohibitive to new parties becoming equally influential. To even begin addressing the multitude of these issues would require passing laws through our current political system and I am convinced that would be near impossible.