This is the actual American left now
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There's also the National Progressive Party (the Vermont Progressive Party's attempt to go national) and the Working Families Party (a New York party's attempt to go national), but their politics are more or less identical. The People's Party appears to be a bigger deal because it builds on the Sanders campaign. They all might as well merge.
And various socialist and communist parties, but they don't amount to much beyond an online presence.
And various socialist and communist parties, but they don't amount to much beyond an online presence.
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Politics1.com's page on parties is a good place to find an impartial thumbnail description of (and link to) every American third party now in existence. It's an interesting read -- did you know the Prohibition Party is still around?
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They all vote Democrat.
And Klansmen and Nazis vote Pub. What else they gonna do?
No this is just the left that got pecks approval.
The REAL left is the DNC, just read their platform.
You'll find it's very different from those linked above.
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Apt comparison, I'm glad you understand they are the other side of the same coin.
No, they're more or less equally extreme ends of the spectrum, but not equally wrong. The three parties linked in the first two posts, and the politics they represent, are pretty much America's only hope of a tolerable future.
The question is whether they will grow into a significant independent force, or take over the Dems the way the hard-right and Tea Party took over the GOP.
One or the other will happen, because conservatism is demographically doomed -- not by racial/ethnic demographics, but generational.
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Wanting to kill anybody who can't trace their ancestry to North western Europe and wanting to protect the rainforests, elephants and get clean energy are not two sides of the same coin.
The progressive or social-democratic left is eco-friendly, to be sure -- but the most important things about it are economic. No other movement in American politics is going to push us toward a more equal distribution of wealth, or seriously challenge the power of the plutocracy -- which is just about the most important problem our society has, now and at all times since 1980. Yes, the existence of the plutocracy is a more important (if less urgent) problem than covid. Less important than climate change, but those two are directly linked -- it is only the plutocracy that obstructs effective remedial measures.
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If only that's what Democrats and leftist are actually about.
Sell that Kool Aid elsewhere comrade, I'm educated and know better
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No, the Democrats are pushing for just that.
Thank god they are FLAILING horribly at actually doing so... our decentralized liberal representative democracy effectively prevents it.
There is no plutocracy.... Jeff Bezos is not god king of America, there is no council of the top 100 riches people running the country.
You're at Alex Jones level crazy.
It's not a plutocracy that obstructs the ultra-authoritarian and totalitarian socialist utopia you're after, it's the lack of popularity... people don't actually want to N. Korea the USA
That is not what the People's Party, National Progressive Party or Working Families Party are after. The world's existing social democracies -- where things in general go much better than they ever do here -- are not "authoritarian" or "totalitarian" or even "socialist." America urgently needs to be more like them (not like North Korea), and that is all these parties are aiming for.
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OK, that made me laugh.If only that's what Democrats and leftist are actually about.
Sell that Kool Aid elsewhere comrade, I'm educated and know better
It's certainly not what anyone on the right is about.
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Today's Democrat Party unabashedly embraces the extreme left and all of the lawless baggage they bring to the table.
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You have the typical failing of your kind -- you view the whole left side of the spectrum through the wrong end of a telescope. You are incapable of perceiving the very important differences and divisions.
This thread is about progressives or social democrats -- something well to the left of "liberal" and well to the right of "socialist." They are America's only real hope. And they find no comfortable home among the Democrats.
And, once again, there is no "Democrat Party."
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They all vote Democrat.
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Oh yes it is... says so right there on their page.
They dress it up in pretty language but they still outright say it, they want social, economic and racial equity.
No they don't, they are more equitable, not better.
And yes they are very much authoritarian... that's why they're putting people who don't vax into concentration camps and prosecute comedians for telling jokes and scientist stating facts that trigger the woke nut jobs.
True, most of them are more liberal and to the right of the American "progressive" lunatics. Especially economically.
No, it doesn't, the US of A needs to continue being the USA.... a union of states run by a very decentralized liberal democracy.
The people who want the totalitarian nanny state need to either do it in their state, get 2/3 of the states to re-write the Constitution making us a unitary "progressive" state (LOL GOOD LUCK!!!) or realize the USA is probably the WRONG country for them.
Nobody said they were.
It's the left who virtue signals for those things, but won't actually commit themselves to it.
they won't turn California into the open border welfare state that taxes the rich into the dirt like they say NEEDS to happen. The hypocrisy here is all on your side. NOBODY on your team will commit to the cause they champion..... because it's fucking insane.
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If only that's what Democrats and leftist are actually about.
Sell that Kool Aid elsewhere comrade, I'm educated and know better
That is exactly what we are all about.
So what? That doesn't mean they're all the same, as the Democrats or as each other.
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No that's the sales job /virtue signal.
What you're about is sticking your hands in other peoples pockets to pay for your virtue signal and the power to prevent them from doing anything about it.
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If only that's what Democrats and leftist are actually about.
Sell that Kool Aid elsewhere comrade, I'm educated and know better
Lol..
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