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liberals love restricting democracy to defend their dumbass party but when we want to ban fascists from political engagement it's suddenty authoritatianism
Lol, i remenber in 2020 when libs were saying republicans are a threat to democracy so socialists started saying to ban them since they are a threat and a bunch of libs pull the "if we do that, then we arent better than them" lol, hollywood has rotten peoples brains
I'd only ever vote for PSL or someone with a similar platform now. It's the bare minimum standard for a functioning society. Anything short of it is arguing over Hitler percentages. If you're not willing to be -1% Hitler or better, you can't be trusted with power.
Lots of states have laws that say write-in votes don't count if they're for some rando like Mickey Mouse or Zombie Lenin. You have to have an "official write-in candidate" who has filled out paperwork and been recognized by the state.
iirc they put workplace democracy on their platform a few years back. regardless, i’m disillusioned with electoral politics so i’m just going to vote for claudia de la cruz. i’d rather vote for the person who aligns with my politics mote than bother trying to vote “strategically,” especially when neither of them have a realistic path to victory.
i prefer PSL ideologically but i can see voting for Stein just bc a fair number of Muslims are galvanizing around her as a Gaza stance and i cant argue against contributing to that
GA automatically gets allowed if PSL gets on the ballot in 2 more states, for what it's worth. If they are on the ballot in at least 20 other states, GA adds it now, regarding the court status.
the duopoly in action. this allows the republicans to do heinous shit in terms of ballot access but the democrats will go along to suppress third parties because the 20 states exception makes it not threaten them
Can someone confirm for me whether the PSL has Covid on their platform at all? I took a look and couldn't find it which was pretty surprising, as Covid is a working class issue. I wouldn't expect the Greens to be better on that than PSL but at first glance it looked like they were.
PSL's anti-imperialist platform is better though so I'm still probably voting them, and US elections are fake so it doesn't really matter that much, but I figured I'd ask
Those are old, the newest article is Jan 2023 and the neoliberal push to pretend covid is a thing of the past has moved quickly and powerfully. I'd like to see more and more recent analysis.
But hell, maybe I should apply to join up with them and lead that angle myself.
The Green Parry removed woo shit like alternative medicine in 2012.
Most of all though, I went to Jill Stein's platform page and found some mention of Covid praising air filtration and vaccines -- which is not good enough, I want to see mask mandates return -- but it's better than nothing . I found nothing about covid on Claudia and Karina's page.
I want to like the PSL more. My criticism or skepticism comes in a friendly "comrades can we please so better about this mass-disabling working class issue" not a radlib "u R cancelled 4 not talking about this one issue that many people are ignoring" way
Democratic stronghold loyal to the party above all else. Oregon has only voted for 4 Republicans since FDR: Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. Eisenhower was extremely popular after WWII. Nixon was after LBJ's fuck ups. Ford was a win over Carter. And Reagan was just that popular. It's also had a democratic governor for almost 40 years. Even during Reconstruction, Oregon had Democratic governors for most of that time period.
As such, Oregon democrats have free reign to stomp all over third parties.
Why is the PSL even bothering with Green Party tactics? I thought they actually read theory and pay attention to history. Surely there's cheaper ways to advertise? Is it just some charity for fellow leftists to not feel like shit at the ballot box?