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Every election year is the year you should vote for “other candidates” in the primaries.
That is how you work to reshape a party you’re not happy with.
Luckily primary season is here now so go make your voice heard!
^Disclaimer^ ^-^ ^this^ ^applies^ ^to^ ^the^ ^US’^ ^two^ ^party^ ^system.^ ^There^ ^are^ ^probably^ ^better^ ^ways^ ^in^ ^better^ ^systems.^
Also vote in every election, not just the big national ones. You're more likely to find viable third party candidates in smaller local elections. The more local wins a third party gets, the more exposure they get, the more possible it becomes to have a viable third party at the national level.
This is the right answer. USA is first-past-the-post voting, so vote/campaign for who you love in the primary and vote for outcome in the general
What about all the times the DNC gently massages preferable primary candidates?
During the primaries, yes. By all means yes, use the primaries to get as good a set of Democratic candidates as possible.
In the actual ballot box? Hell no. Hold your nose and vote lesser evil. Those are literally your only options at that point. The game theory explaining why this is the case is quite simple, I recommend taking a look a this video. It's only 6 minutes long and will tell you why there's a two-party system in the US and why there will always be a two-party system.
If you vote for anything other than Democrat in the actual election then you're throwing your vote away. Kang and Kodos are unfortunately correct, you have to pick one of those two or you're throwing your vote away. Wishing it was otherwise is not going to change reality even if you wish really hard. Only changing the US away from a first-past-the-post voting system will do that, and you're not going to get that done in 8 months.
People will tell you otherwise. Those people are either liars, ignorant, or fools. I wish I could sugar-coat this, but this shit is too important for you guys right now. First put the fire out, then try to deal with the arsonist at large.
You must get the Republicans out of power. Only the Democrats can do that in this upcoming election, as lame and uninspiring an option as that might be.
There's no other candidate who can win.
Anyone who doesn't vote for a Democrat candidate is voting for Trump.
Your group lost two significant elections to a carnival barker, elections where they had every possible advantage in their favor and you managed to lose to a d-list celebrity. Its time for Democrats to listen to leftists, who have always been right.
Or maybe the dems lost because the left is mucking around fighting among themselves.
If you dont want Trump, vote democrat.
pretty much, and left/communism has ben so demonized for decades no candidate would every risk being that and not a laughing stock.
No, this year more than literally any other year in human history would be the absolute worst time to not vote for a democratic candidate. We are dealing with unprecedented challenges to rule of law, and we need every single person with a functioning soul to scream "NO" as loud as we can. Because if you don't, you might not get another chance.
I mean, you're not wrong, but also try your best to primary candidates outside of the two parties, if you're in the US.
While it is true there are no good kings, we should try to get as many halfway decent people in the office as possible.
Once primaries are done, then under no circumstances vote for Republicans. And if the option is between a Democrat that might narrowly win and a third-party candidate that might narrowly win, then vote for the third-party candidate. Otherwise vote for Democrats.
I prefer to try to primary a candidate within my party, because no offense people not voting in the primaries is how we got joe biden.
newsome is far worst than biden in opinion.
Now is primary time -- MANY elections have honestly decent looking people running under the Democratic ticket. Now is the time to replace the incumbents with people who give a shit
at the least schumer in '28 or '30 needs to go. i think jefferies is doable every 2 years, if not this years.
In England we had a three-party system for many a year. Then the third party (Liberal Democrats) showed their true colours. Then we had two. Now a new third party, Reform, is rising up on a platform of racism. They're splitting the racist vote. That allowed a fourth party, the Greens, a noteworthy victory in a local by-election.
I don't know how it works over there, but what I take away from this is that it wouldn't have been possible without people who were willing to vote for not a third party, but a fourth party.
It would be amusing if this actually got the powers that be to consider proportional representation. Better chance of having a say in government if the alternative parties start beating first-past-the-post. One voice that must be listened to is better than shouting impotently from the wrong side of the house.
having multiple parties prevent anyone to becoming too dominant over a long period of time. which is why putin was pushing the reform to be the dominant one. the "2 party system in the us" is really just one party, or a uniparty of the right wing. thats what AIPACdems are so afraid of, they wont be able grift of wha tthe GOP as opened the door for.
You missed the boat. 2025 was when the we should not support the democrats because they don't do neough voting happened. Yipee!! Its been awesome. Can't wait for more. Look. I will abandon the democrats when the republicans are no longer a thing. Want my votes or others like me. All we have to do is have republicans losing in droves.
First of all, it's not wishful thinking. Second of all, many of us have been doing this for decades. And most importantly, if you only try to express power through your vote, then that will definitely not be good enough for real change. It's incredibly important that you get out there and do other things at other times, however you reasonably can given your situation in life.
There's an old saying that everyone is equal on election day. Actually that's not true because of gerrymandering and the Electoral College and disenfranchisement. But even if it were true, then everyone would not be equal the other 364 days of the year. Or non-election years. So don't rely on voting to solve problems, but do it anyway.
Kinda hard these days. Republicans are so hell bent on being anti woke and anti liberal freedom they eat the boot that kicks them and will always vote Republican no matter what. Democrats are the same way because we see most of today's Republicans as the most evil and vile party in history. It comes down to Gen z to actually go an vote if they're of age, but at the same time that requires young adults to form their own opinions and not be brainwashed by their super policial parents.
yep, Also you should find out which candidates chuck schumer is protecting, he had 8 sacrificial dems that wernt up for re-election, but i heard thier were 13 he was shielding,. likewise with hakeem jefferies, he needs to go and those he shielded. i believed one of the dems was pardoned by trump.
I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/
