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Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

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Westdragon@lemmy.world
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Want to build a viable third party for presidential elections? Start small at the city/county level and eventually you will have candidates at the state/federal level. Today’s city council is tomorrow’s senator/president. Does it really surprise anyone that a relatively unknown and unproven candidate outside of the two major parties doesn’t get any traction in a federal election?

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MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml
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That takes money, lots of it and the 2 main parties have huge corporate donors who will never give money to an environmental party

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PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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That’s already the goal of state chairs for third parties.

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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Oh it’s that easy eh?

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Westdragon@lemmy.world
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I think you might need to reread my post, I didn’t say it was easy. It’s reality, which generally isn’t easy.

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YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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Just keep smashing yourself into the bricks to “deny the wall legitimacy” or whatever. I’m sure it will work this time.

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Westdragon@lemmy.world
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So you don’t agree that starting from the ground up won’t work? Why not? Too much effort or takes too much time?

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