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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why are we acting like a 3rd party isn’t viable?

Because there are no viable third parties? I mean, it's not complicated. What we want and what the system allows for are very different things unfortunately.

We are very far from a third party unless someone AMAZING comes on stage and somehow secures a massive amount of funding, which isn't impossible and I would be first in line to support such an effort, but I simply don't see it happening unless we get some kind of charismatic Robo Space Mamdani who was also born in the US and somehow can secure millions and millions of dollars for campaign funding, and can also make capital comfortable enough to not sabotage their campaign.

We just don't have a democracy strong enough to support this kind of change, the US is run by forces of capital.