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Thibauld
@thibauld
RFK Jr's campaign showed that it's impossible to have a 3rd party candidate in the US, it's just too hard. The guy had the name, the signatures and the political opportunity... yet he had to stop. IMHO the next best realistic chance to fix politics is to change the voting method used in primaries. As a society, we're so used to choosing 1 candidate among many that we forgot (i) that other methods exist and (ii) how we vote massively impacts the political life. This TED talk from Andrew Yang is a great introduction to this rabbit hole 👇 https://youtu.be/1Ws3w_ZOmhI?si=14rN5cIPqtsRaQOZ
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Beninem
@beninem
RFK was weird AF, destined to lose from the getgo and no one ever took him seriously. I'd say if anything these 3rd party candidates are actually in place to pull people apart from the middle and to their far edges. And pretty much a 3rd party can win if the candidate ISN'T weird AF and has largely different social views from their party. We just haven't seen it yet. Yang wasn't it. While he was normal the dude was far left on the progressive spectrum with UBI. Green party candidates are similar. Libertarian candidates are similarly too far right. Show me an otherwise normal candidate though with slight modifications, like a slightly pro-abortion Republican or a mostly anti-abortion Democrat and I'd show you a legit third party candidate who legit gets media attention.
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