I know it's early, but if you're an NYC voter this November vote for Zohran Mamdani on the Working Families party line, not the Democratic party's.

Due to fusion voting, he gets either added to his total but this way you support the small party most responsible for his victory. And it will help a third party Cuomo tried to kill grow in relevance as an alternative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fusion_in_the_United_States

#nywfp #wfp #uspol #NYC #Mamdani #fusionVoting

Democrats are not rising to meet this moment. (Not the Iran thing but just vocal opposition in general) We need to organize ourselves. I honestly don’t know what that will look like but we have to do something.

We also cannot do this without them either. We need a strong Progressive leadership that includes and invites Democrats but is clearly larger than Democrats.

What does this look like in other countries? We don’t have proportional reps so we can’t just form smaller parties and run against them. But we need something like #FusionVoting to gather our coalition around a common candidate without letting Democrats run the entire show. So far #WFP comes closest to this model.

What if we successfully organize ourselves into small local groups of 100-500, is there some method of distributed governance so we can agree on our list of demands before the Dems primary?

There’s no owners manual for your vote. Nobody tells voters that third parties can’t win and that the opposite side *wants* you to vote for third parties, Mickey Mouse, or ride the couch.

Nobody tells us that we have to show up to PRIMARIES to get better choices, and we have to come together in November or our coalition will have no power and move closer to the “center”

We can’t rely on Democrats. But we can’t do this without them either. We need to figure out how to join and make changes we want from the inside. We don’t have proportional representation, ranked choice voting, #FusionVoting yet.

Have a look at WFP @WorkingFamilies for a model of a third party working within the system and pushing Progressive candidates without being spoilers like Greens are.

Thanks Elon but we're good on billionaire and authoritarian parties. But if you want a real multi-party democracy, here are some things you should know.

https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-start-a-new-political #democracy #fusionVoting #RankedChoiceVoting #proportionalRepresentation

"Fusion voting allows more than one political party to nominate the same candidate."

Two states already use fusion voting: New York and Connecticut. Let's bring it to the rest of the blue states!

#democracy #election #fusionvoting #voting #vote #democrats #wfp #dsa

https://www.newamerica.org/the-thread/lee-drutman-saving-democracy-through-voting-reform/