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Bernie says progressives should run as Independents (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by FiftyFiftyOne to c/Mirror

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I think the message was clear—even though trump manipulated the working people of this country, they voted for reform. Americans don’t want incremental change anymore. We need to give people a GENUINE democratic-populist candidate. The the libs sabotaged Bernie and ran BIDEN . And then BIDEN AGAIIINNN. The writing was on the wall but we didn’t believe it. The Democratic Party is not going to win elections in this political environment propping up moderate institutionalist candidates. Walz, AOC, or Bernie if his age isn’t a factor.

That’s why I think 50501 should support independent candidates. This is a WORKING CLASS movement. No more ivory towers.

Originally Posted By u/Sweet-Management1930 At 2025-03-20 01:42:45 PM | Source

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[–] thatonelinuxdude 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It makes sense to try and establish a small party locally and on state level. It a good place as any to start and we can popularize a small party via grass root movement to go door to door to let people know about the new party. Once we have many different parties, there could be a discussion for pushing for a national political party and be a contender to GOP and Democrat.

[–] enub22 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

We do not have RCV though. Doing a new political party will end up in the GOP winning again. The only way forward is to infiltrate and push both parties with better candidates that genuinely want to improve this country and their states, not for their own monetary interests, just like how the rich assholes did it.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Some of the successful independent parties did just that. Infiltrate both the dems and gop then announce “surprise!”

[–] enub22 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How do we do that, and how do we know who to vote for?

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Sorry wrong link , here it is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Farmer%E2%80%93Labor_Party

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

I use these folks as inspiration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Democratic%E2%80%93Farmer%E2%80%93Labor_Party

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