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Start a new political party, the 'American Progressive Majority'. (i.redd.it)

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Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like "liberal" and "conservative".

A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as "to the left" or "to the right" of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.

Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then fucking vote like it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I appreciate and agree with the sentiment, but I think a call to form an entirely new political party demonstrates a naivety with regards to how the American political system works. It's just not going to happen. A third party will NEVER displace one of the two major parties without massive changes to the electoral system that would likely require a Constitutional Amendment.

Our system and political culture is just not structured to allow for 3rd parties. What's more, the 2 major parties have ingrained themselves into the system so much that they have MASSIVE institutional advantages over a 3rd party.

This will never be a successful effort. I think a better goal would be to co-opt and take over the Democratic Party, booting out all the Vichy collaborationists like Schumer, Jefferies, Newsom, Adams, Pelosi, etc, and remaking the party.

With a new 3rd party, best case scenario is it has 0 impact. If it does get any votes, it'll just divide the anti-fascist vote with the Democrats (and any other 3rd parties) making it even more difficult to win.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (22 children)

"Democracy will just never work, the king won't allow it"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/927/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If that's true why did the majority let the minority lead the way, are they dumb?

[–] explodicle 7 points 2 months ago

If you just vote for the individual policies we say we want in this poll, then you're throwing your vote away!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes. Americans are fucking stupid.

The RNC and GOP claim to hold every position on every stance and talk about outcomes which will never come from the policies they actually write. The American Public doesn't know jack shit about policies or vote history.

So the GOP consistently outnumber the DNC every year for over 10 years. Even when DNC pick majority leader it has been because of caucusing Independents.

You can just keep winning if you just keep lying.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Me% would love it if everyone were able to attend higher education. History gets sugarcoated in grade school. Once you make it to college, you get to learn all the good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Also, c'mon! Everyone in my community pays at least $10,000.00 a year in taxes but somehow that's not enough to patch up all the holes on the road.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'll be real with you, in depth WWII history should be taught in high school, as well as political spectrums like dictatorships. Where I'm from, I saw images of concentration camp victims when I was 15, in class. I saw how starved they were in pictures and in videos. Saw the piles of clothes, shoes, tooth fillings, etc. Saw the camps themselves and Hitler speeches that we studied. We were presented the US anti-propaganda film, "Don't Be A Sucker" as well to home in how dangerous dictator cult speeches are.

It did affect me a lot to learn about these things and the harsh reality of human cruelty, but it was also a good lesson to ingrain in us kids. Repeating this is a worse nightmare than being educated about it. I'm always shocked when I meet Americans that got the bare minimum education on WWII with 0 understanding of the how it happened. It's actually shocking.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Meh, I'm guessing there already is some small party that ticks all those boxes. I'm guessing independents, or some random party could win certain local races if the Dem and Rep are both very unpopular, and the media gives them air time (that may be hard). Unfortunately, I don't think the next presidential election will be valid election, and I don't think the state-level elections in red states will be valid either. Having other parties can be useful for getting messaging out (again, if the media gives them air-time), but the country looks like it's going full fascist, which will probably need mass direct action, or war, to unseat.

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