No, that’s all due to leftism. Liberals just took credit for them, and have prevented leftists from protecting them.
Okay but “leftism” is just a made-up word like “cromulent” and “hypothetical”.

Im a left wing socialist, living in Scotland. From my point of view, American liberals are closer to nazis than they are to me.

I live in a country that has free healthcare, free education. That took the two party system, and told it to take a fucking walk. And we did all this, while under the rule of parliament in England. Are we perfect? Not even close. Even the SNP, the party most directly responsible for all the good shit we have today, is invested with corruption.

But if youre an American, and youre waxing lyrical about how amazing the Dems are or about how amazing it is being a “liberal”. Im sorry, but youre right wing and youre hated outside of the US by people who are actually left wing. I mean, youre left wing party is to the right of the fucking tories in the UK. And tories are, in no uncertain terms, massive fucking cunts.

Something to think about the next time you are looking at the Dems to be your heroes…

The thing is, dems are the only other party choice.

And while dem leadership is absolutely awful, there are progressives in the Democratic party. Like actual socdems and demsocs. The issue is nobody votes in primaries.

There’s lots of other parties. But the Dems sued the socialist candidate off my state’s ballot last election.

It’s moronic to claim the people setting the fire are the only ones who can fix it.

Link pls?

Just dig a little. The Democrats do this every single election. There’s no better options on the ballot, precisely because they spend a ton of time and money to keep it that way.

whyy.org/articles/…/amp/

apnews.com/…/wisconsin-jill-stein-harris-trump-la…

whyy.org/articles/…/amp/

dcist.com/…/dc-democrats-sue-to-stop-ranked-choic…

Democrats seek removal of Kennedy and others from Georgia presidential ballots

Georgia challengers argue that because Kennedy used the New York address on petitions needed for an independent to qualify, his petitions should be voided.

WHYY

“I see no good reason for Mr. West to be kept off the ballot or Pennsylvanians otherwise prevented from voting for him,” the lawyer, Matt Haverstick, said in an interview. Haverstick declined to say who hired him or why.

Jill Stein was your socialist candidate? The party that very specifically, under the direction of russia, runs in order to help trump win? The party that filed late and incompletely?

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Green Party will remain an official party in North Carolina, able to field candidates statewide through the 2028 elections, even though their 2024 nominees for governor and president failed to get the votes required by state law. 

The Republican-led State Board of Elections voted 3-2 on Thursday to continue recognizing the North Carolina Green Party, potentially affecting close contests for president, U.S. Senate and governor or other statewide and local offices.

I hope that’s not too complex for everyone to grok as to what’s going on there.

And it’s funny you say they “always” do that because they didn’t used to do that. Until republiQan ratfuckers like Roger Stone realized they just needed to siphon off 2% more of votes and the GOP would win everytime.

This isn’t the DNC gatekeeping elections, this is an offensive line that is gatekeeping the quarterback. Stunt candidates are a tool the GOP uses all the time - ask them what Ross Perot taught them. Or John Anderson. Scant, last-minute candidates who may or may not know who’s backing them are not serious political entities on a national stage.

Jill Stein? Really? Are we gonna do that one again?

North Carolina Green Party retains official status despite failing vote thresholds

The Green Party will remain an official party in North Carolina, able to field candidates statewide through the 2028 elections. The Republican majority on the State Board of Elections voted Thursday to allow the North Carolina Green Party to be recognized again in the ninth-largest state. The party was at risk of joining four other small parties whose candidates for president or governor also failed to reach vote thresholds last year. But Green Party officials said they more than met another standard in state law because presidential candidate Jill Stein was on the 2024 ballot in at least 35 states.

AP News

Claudia de la Cruz was the socialist candidate.

But the fact that Democrats sued so many different candidates off the ballot that it had you confused really drives home my point.

Regardless, the Stein voters should’ve been allowed to vote for her too. Very revealing that you disagree. I guess “democracy” only applies if we’re going to vote for a Democrat?

Well of the three links that worked (its possible dcist is affected by AWS, idk) all mentioned Stein, none mentioned de la Cruz.

So, not really “confused” so much as deliberately misinformed? Hey, speaking of deliberately misinformed, did you read that Stein will still run in NC even though she had ‘t met the requirements? Kept there by the crooked elections board? Any ideas as to why that is?

Would you like to say the state requirements are a deliberate attempt to stifle third party organization so I can go look up that it takes 10% of the primary and fifty bucks?

Stein’s only focused on in one of those. RFK and West are highlighted in the others, though the articles all mention that multiple candidates are affected. But I guess I “deliberately misinformed” you by not spoon feeding it to you?

Or this bot can’t follow links, and picked Stein out of the url?

Ah you know what, you’re right, the first link did mention de la Cruz and I blurped right over it:

Georgia counties have determined that Kennedy, West and De la Cruz each collected at least 7,500 signatures to qualify. Stein hopes to use a new Georgia law awarding a ballot place to candidates of a party who qualify in at least 20 other states.

Malihi heard two challenges to Kennedy on Monday, as well as a challenge to De la Cruz. He’ll hear challenges Thursday to West and the Green Party. Malihi will issue findings to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who will make a final ruling. A decision must be made before Georgia mails military and overseas ballots beginning Sept. 17.

My apologies, you were right there.

That also caught my eye because the radical leftist Georgia legislature passing an election law in 2024 is sure interesting and whattaya know they’re super big on letting smaller parties run in Georgia even in they haven’t qualified in a majority of other states.

Well that’s a huge win for the left, isn’t it! And here we all thought Georgia was a deep red shithole state with a crooked republiQan party machine ready, willing, able, and experienced at screwing over progressive voters at any and every turn.

Looks like Georgia will soon be a worker’s paradise! Y’know unless there’s some reason this law wouldn’t promote that somehow.

Georgia lawmakers approve new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

Georgia lawmakers have approved new rules for challenging voters and qualifying for the state’s presidential ballot. The changes could impact the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state. The House and Senate passed the bill late Thursday as the 2024 legislative session was ending. The measure now goes to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto. The bill would grant any political party that has qualified for the presidential ballot in at least 20 states or territories access to Georgia’s ballot. The change could be a boost to independent candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The bill also spells out reasons for challenging voter qualifications, which could lead to their removal from voter rolls.

AP News
Thesis proven. Plenty of other parties. The Dems just keep them blocked from the ballot. And you apparently support that.

It’s a way to keep a lock on the state by fascists, but sure. Dems bad.

sigh

Dems are also fascists. They are both enemies. They are both far right, pro-genocide parties. They gotta go.
No. They’re not. You’re wrong. And you left the fascism tap on again.

The Dems were sending in the national guard to intimidate their own cities under Biden. They’ve fully and illegally supported the genocide. They oversaw the construction of Cop City style military bases near most of the metro areas in this country. And Dems issued a public thank you letter to ICE agents when the raids started.

Wake the fuck up.

Dems were sending in the national guard to intimidate their own cities under Biden.

You mean DC? After that nazi rammed his car into the guard gate? Right after Jan 6?

They oversaw the construction of Cop City style military bases near most of the metro areas in this country.

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

Kathy Hochul sent in the national guard to New York City, even pushing the same lie as Trump that it was in response to a crime wave, though she was eventually forced to admit the data showed that crime was down.

You don’t seem well informed.

Uh huh and your Cop City claims?
Atlanta Democrats Blocked the Cop City Referendum — and Alienated a Voter Turnout Operation

In the battleground state of Georgia, Democrats’ decision to disregard the will of 116,000 voters could have major consequences.

The Intercept

Well I knew about the atlanta one because of that murder, but I didn’t know about the mayor and whoever shitcanning the effort (also led by Democrats), so that fucking sucks. And a fair point.

I also didn’t know there were more, although the article about that doesn’t say specifically the Democrats are doing them, but to be fair there’s about 400 metro areas, and only seven listed in that article, so that’s not “every” metro area anyway. By, like, 393.

So, look, i agree there are terrible Democrats that need to be ousted, for sure. Supporting the Iraq War was a big disaster which should have ended careers and so on. And if the People’s Peace Party or Jimbobs Collective Avengers has a candidate that’s better, then fine by me. But there’s no other party for the vast majority of the country. So I’m not sure what your solution is supposed to be other than keep allowing fascism to flow freely through the repuibliQans.

Just saying “Democrats suck” is firstly dismissing those places where they don’t suck (not sucking doesn’t get an article written about it either, which doesn’t help my point), but also what’s the fucking plan then? No one ever seems to have one. Not even the “concept of a plan”. Occasionally they’ll quote Marx at me, that seems to be the limit of any ideas for the future.

So it doesn’t seem like you’ll have a place in how we move forward.

You’re saying no one is telling me what their plan is because I’m specifically excluded?

Well that sounds like the beginnings of a very successful national political party indeed.

I think it’s just because there is no plan, though. Just, continue to let republiQans win and screech that Democrats are the worst until everyone becomes a republiQan officially.

Yup. People still supporting Democrats are more of a liability than a help.