Not sure... Bernie had a lot of support and his "base" didn't seem to show up to vote of course the primaries are different, but it's hard to tell, and there's still so much going to happen in the next few months.
That's why I inserted the word "wish".
I would love a third party. Maybe call it the "moderate party of America" or something. Where voters that like conservative and liberal policies. I would probably join that party in a heartbeat.
I think it mostly proved that young voters still don't vote. Which was much of his base.
Isn't that the same with "Republicans and Democrats" though? Their values are all over the place, theirs a huge spectrum in ideologies amongst them as well. They've just become an umbrella where they try to get as many who might be sort of in a similar vein on at least a couple issues to join them. I think a third party would actually help this problem and divide in the two parties too because there would be more options. A lot of people feel like well in order to have a voice I have to join one of those two groups even if I don't agree with them on many things I just pick a couple of things important to me and go from there.
My overall point was just that I don't know what any of the polls right now and all of that really means in terms of November. Guess we'll find out, in November.
Me too.. After decades of bullshit from two parties, it could not be done. The electoral college system handed third parties the ticket out of town. This election is especially scary because both candidates are lost and cannot focus. Trump says anything that floats in his head and Biden can't keep what is floating in his head for long.
True, but there are many “moderate” voters on both sides that have similar views. They could peel voters from both the democrats and republican sides imo.
Yes, 100% agree it’s near impossible to have a true third party. Takes a lot of money and influential people to establish.
I dont agree. I think it means there are a lot of people who dont find each other politically repugnant, they would gladly find a place where they dont have to hate the “other side”. There are a lot of people in those parties who would leave if other options existed. I feel like Bernie has basically shown theres room for a democratic socialist party, its comprised of democrats but also many of his voters wont for a democrat. A democratic socialist party could suck up (lol), many from the democrats, but it would drag the democratic party somewhat to the right to garner attention, there’d be many independents who could in theory find a home now in the new democratic or democratic socialist parties, while the democratic party could potentially suck out some republicans who are more moderate that dont want to go towards the further right stuff. I think we see every year that voter turn out is bad because so many even those registered “d” or “r” are alienated by those groups.
Or maybe your standards are just too low.
