YSK: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.

thallamabond@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 232 points –

WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.

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undefined> attack the structural barriers to viable 3rd parties

Which starts by voting third party and ignoring people who parrot nonsense like "a vote for X is a vote for Y".

Nope, terrible idea. You've walked into their trap card: First past the post voting. It takes advantage if your impatience and lack of understanding of the system to lure you into throwing your vote away.

I'd say it starts with bringing ranked or approval voting to your state, supporting voter initiatives in your state that erode the 2 party systems power.

You need to understand

  • how party primaries function to prevent real candidates from getting in
  • how the 2 parties have sequestered funding and resources that the other parties don't have access to
  • how the 2 parties have changed the US government to entrench their power

Nope, that's nonsense that just reinforces the existing dual party structure. The statement 'throwing your vote away' is the first sign you're on the wrong track.