What will it take for staunch Democrats to vote third party? - eviltoast
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/151111

With the dust is settling from their defeat on Tuesday, it’s becoming clearer that there was some incredible malpractice going on in the Democratic party. As shown in the tweet I linked, Biden delayed dropping out even though his team knew it was going to be a complete blowout for Trump. Then, we have Harris’s campaign spending over a billion dollars and still losing all of the swing states she needed to win.

For all the Democrats who would never vote Republican and would have never voted third party, are you now considering voting third party in future elections? If not, what would it take?

  • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
    9·
    2 months ago

    I’ll move if they distance themselves from the platform I believe in, or if there’s a third party candidate that happens to be enticing enough.

    The platform I support, in ranked order:

    • Pro environment
    • Personal freedoms / social liberty
    • Statecraft over War
    • Higher taxes on the rich, comparatively, but not to the point of stifling innovation
    • Education, Internet and Healthcare as fundamental rights
    • Capitalism, with competition
    • Global Trade
    • Pro Union
    • Space exploration
    • Security (only at the level needed to maintain personal freedom)
    • YIMBYism
    • Reducing National debt
    • Federalism

    As I see it, the Dems are still pretty aligned with that, perhaps just not in the same prioritized order, and that’s fair, because they have others they’ll lose first before they lose me.