Jessica Corbett
Nov 06, 2024
“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change,” said the Vermont Independent. “And they’re right.”
I have thought for years that we needed more political parties in this countries, but the current system makes it almost impossible for them to hold any real power.
What’s needed is a takeover of the Democratic party. The Republicans did it, for evil. We could do it for good.
The practical problem is that Citizens United gives the super-rich most of the power. It would take a very large-scale populist movement to push them out and take back control.
So New York kind of has something like this. They can run candidates under multiple parties. For example, they run the DNC candidates under the Democrats, but also under the Working Families Party, and both will count as a vote for them. My family members in New York always vote for the Dem candidate under the WFP because it helps them make quorum and also signals that they prefer the WFP endorsement over the DNC.
Here’s an article with a sample ballot from a district of NY. You can see Kamala and Trump under Dem/Repub, but also under WFP/Cons as candidates. Same with the senate.
The national numbers never show the breakdowns of which bubbles were actually filled in, just the totals. But I’m always curious as to what the ballot breakdown actually is.
