• ofcourse@lemmy.ml
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    I agree that she should run, but as an independent candidate because the DNC will never give her a honest shot in the primaries.

    Americans however are unlikely to elect her especially due to electoral college as there are plenty racist and misogynistic voters in the swing states.

    But if she’s able to raise money in the process to give her a real shot, US will finally have a viable third party candidate. If it looks like she’ll only split the Dem vote without winning, the raised money can be used to support progressive candidates in local elections.

    Either way, I think US needs a progressive liberals party and soon because there’s a lot of House and Senate seat elections coming up and as we have seen from the GOP playbook, local elections are as relevant and influential as the national ones.

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      as an informed she’ll split the vote.

      it’s there a way to force a form of ranked choice voting?

      she runs for independent, but the votes are for delegates that chose the president, so if she gets 10% of the votes, the delegated should vote for the other less fash candidat, while if she does get the majority she gets the presidency

      on top of that, she can make the delegate vote conditional for some policies. so even if she gets 5% of the votes she can dictate the delegates to vote for whichever candidate signs a legally binding contract to do some prewritten executive actions on day one, like abolish Ice. release all imprisonment migrants, grant re-entry visas to deported…

      so even if she only gets a few votes, she can have a lot of influence and power.

      I just started thinking about this today,and I fear there are more complications. but I’m principle, could this work?

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        At a minimum splitting the vote would mean that they are coming from the “didn’t vote” pool (which has been the majority in pretty much every election for decades now). This is a strong signal that the DNC needs to move left or become irrelevant because a new party would simply split. For example of this working see the republican party becoming the maga party for that reason. Doing this will also add more weight to our protests.

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          yhea, the dems becoming right wing is what the donors want, but it won’t get votes

          making the democrats a dead party, unless they tell the donors to fuck off.