• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    propaganda from both parties keep people at the bottom of the juice pitcher unable to breath fresh air and there are too few not drinking the punch to do anything

    huge crab effect going on here

    like when you go crabbing and put all the crabs in the bucket and the crabs that almost get out get stopped by their peers

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      4 months ago

      It’s not cool that Americans are as dumb as crabs in this analogy. If every leftist just got behind the green party we might stand a chance. But everyone wants their own unique ideology represented.

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        4 months ago

        If you think Jill Stein represents any sort of real leftist ideology, I have a number of bridges to offer you.

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          4 months ago

          I didn’t say that I did think that. What I do think is that leftists should leverage the biggest third party that’s the closest to representing their core values into the party that they want. It has nothing to do with Jill Stein and more to do with uniting under one generalized leftist party instead of constantly fracturing into weaker more specific parties.