One of the great indignities of being an American voter is having to pretend that the solution to every political problem is the Democratic Party moving left or right.
In a normal country, the Bulwark would have a center-left or center party, and we could have a left party. It’s long past time.
In a normal country, the Bulwark would have a center-left or center party, and we could have a left party. It’s long past time.
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The Bulwark
Voters: Can we have more moderate cultural or policy positions?
Tim Walz: Best I can do is talk about football with podcasters
Tim Walz: Best I can do is talk about football with podcasters
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Robust Recall process
Drive Money and Corruption out, purge style, if necessary.
Dispel these insane notions that Corporations are people, end Citizen United.
Until we clear out the temple, tables are getting tossed.
Donald Trump is pretty clear evidence that people want solutions to their problems, even if the proposed solutions are insane, bigoted, or made around targeting them specifically to suffer.
Being somewhat reasonable with China isn't going to being people back as long as he's sticking to PR2025's plan.
People aren't happy. They want change. They voted for the change candidate, but polling shows they don't like it.
GO left. Give options for positive change.
Isn't it just a matter of elevating their voices?
What's needed is for these Dems to be in charge and for the Schumers of the party to be in the back seat or rear view. Not a new party.
Then we can talk about retreating into factions and devising alternative voting systems.
And Bulwark is trying to pull them even more rightward? How do centrists keep getting this wrong?
The Bulwark: “can we have a moderate position here?”
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190219005733/https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/approval-voting-vs-irv
http://tinyurl.com/lpAltVoteRpt (see "Leveraging the Spoiler Effect")
Alas, the LP was/is pretty MAGA instead of center-right and thus preferred spoiling in favor of MAGA Republicans.
Y’all should have your own party and could help win electoral reform. It’d be useful!
The hard truth is that ending one-party non-partisan non-democracy is more important than left victories in the short term.
I'm hoping for more anglosphere to follow NZ. Americans sorta pay attention to those countries, at least compared to our total ignorance of other countries.
Tim Walz by the way is a fan of changing the electoral system. This is the first time in my life someone on a major ticket has espoused these views. Are you sure the Democrats can't lead that charge?