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There already are multiple leftist parties in the US. The Green Party is the main one, but there are others.
The issue is that they don't get much press coverage, and a lot of people use the argument that if leftists split off from the Democrats and divide, then the Republicans will win. That keeps a lot of people from voting for those parties.
Your greens are heavily compromised, if I’m not mistaken.
Jill Stein has had dinner with Putin, so yeah, just a wee bit.
no, she didn't.
Ranked choice voting could help with this.
A couple of states do have ranked choice voting, but it definitely should be implemented for all.
A bit, but Star Voting is better in every way (except awareness).
The Green Party is not leftist.
What is your reasoning for this? According to their very own website, they support a lot of common leftist talking points.
From their Wikipedia page:
Are you confusing what parties claim with what they actually believe and will actually do?
What they say and what they do are different things.
I mean, it's not like they're able to do much because they don't have much political power. I'm genuinely curious as to the things that they have done that make you say that.
Only attempting relevance during a presidential election, then quickly disappearing after is the only bit needed.
The Green Party is a tool of the Republican Party, nothing more.
But who is this Dems voting base? Are they mostly liberal? If so, they wouldn’t go anywhere else anyways. But I feel like they’ll be a lot of disenfranchised MAGA voters by 2028, that would be willing to support anything other than the democrats.
Right wing media would immediately jump on promoting the alternate party as horrible communist socialist liberal whatever other words they like to use to scare an anger their base, and the net result would be the same.