I don’t see how the greens could go with national and not lose a big portion of their base.
Opportunity is also the teal party now. It is occupied territory, the greens can’t really step into that space without looking a bit daft.
Thus like act, they are welded to the bigger party for better or worse. In my view both act and green should have limited negotiating power, they are never going to cross the isle.
You’d think that there ought to be a teal voter: conservative, both in terms of conserving economic resources and in terms of conserving our natural resources. But I guess there are not many big businesses lobbying for these types of policies, whereas the fossil fuel industry goes hard with lobbying.
And a lot of people I talk to, maybe it is my biased bubble. But there are a lot of people in the teal camp. I don’t have social media beyond Lemmy… So these are IRL people, far more than 5% in fact.
I hope that when the vote is counted, teal voters will have had the courage to stand behind their values rather than be afraid of the “wasted vote”.
If polling shoes a consistent above 5%; this is far less of a concern.
Yep.
I don’t see how the greens could go with national and not lose a big portion of their base.
Opportunity is also the teal party now. It is occupied territory, the greens can’t really step into that space without looking a bit daft.
Thus like act, they are welded to the bigger party for better or worse. In my view both act and green should have limited negotiating power, they are never going to cross the isle.
You’d think that there ought to be a teal voter: conservative, both in terms of conserving economic resources and in terms of conserving our natural resources. But I guess there are not many big businesses lobbying for these types of policies, whereas the fossil fuel industry goes hard with lobbying.
Yes. Me.
And a lot of people I talk to, maybe it is my biased bubble. But there are a lot of people in the teal camp. I don’t have social media beyond Lemmy… So these are IRL people, far more than 5% in fact.
I hope that when the vote is counted, teal voters will have had the courage to stand behind their values rather than be afraid of the “wasted vote”.
If polling shoes a consistent above 5%; this is far less of a concern.