Finally, we got a third party.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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"America Party"
Americans really are the ultimate parody of themselves. Have fun with your civil war.
The "America Party", started by a Nazi African. What a wild thing.
Not just the USA or even just North America. It's apparently a party for South America as well!
Tbf assuming South America is just kinda ours to mess with or else just forgetting about it is a pretty common thing for the US to do, it tracks
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I’m not sure if I want this to fail or succeed.
Hopefully it has success at breaking us from our failed two party system, while at the same time the party itself fails (and costs him lot of money in the process).
We'll need ranked choice (or some other voting scheme other than First Past The Post). Otherwise it'll just end up the same as it always has.
Yes, and without it, any third party struggles to take hold. This new party could make ranked choice voting a bipartisan(tripartisan?) issue since they would need it to survive unless they really think they can just yank all of the R votes their way.
Need new rules in House and Senate, too. The majority party gets majority in all the committees, gets to pick all the committee chairs, etc. All of the current non-D/non-R members 'caucus' with one of the major parties, making them de facto members of that party. A third party with enough representation to block the other two from gaining majority would almost certainly end up in an alliance with one, leaving us back with functional two-party politics.
I'll gladly accept a reactionary centrist spoiler party into the mix. Especially if it coincides with the Clinton wing of the DNC losing its ability to maintain its grip on power.
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Breaking the US from the failed 2-party system would require replacing first-past-the-post voting with at least ranked choice, if not a proportional system like Hare-Clarke, and probably scrapping the Electoral College altogether. Which may require constitutional amendments, or at least a partisan Supreme Court sympathetic to more democracy that would Chewbacca-defence it through regardless of legality.
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Best case scenario is it will split the right wing vote. In Canada, we're used to it going the other way with conservatives taking advantage of a split left.
Washington Post columnists said it would probably just capture the "Never Trumper" moderate Republican voters who currently begrudgingly vote Democratic because they understand that the Republican Party is nominating only yes-men and fascists.
Washington Post isn't exactly a beacon of truth and justice.
Especially not their opinion column but I'm just posting here because it's interesting to see what the neoliberals think about it and it's a good discussion point
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Republican never Trumper that doesn't vote GOP is likely vanishingly small. They all fall in line.
It might siphon off the GOP voters that begrudingly fell in line because they bought the Communist Kamala or something, or the ones that needed to see Trump disaster a second time.
The Dems leaned hard on the never Trumpers for votes last year and you can see where that got them. Elon can have them.
And why would Bezos say otherwise?
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I want him to split the GOP vote. Basically just a Jill Stein that believes his own swill.
Yeah...
At best, it splits the MAGAt vote, making Dems a clear winner.
At worst, it takes some GenZ dipshit votes away from Dems and causes chaos.
Gen z men are already voting republican
I think your beef should be with all men then. As Trump voters increased in men by age. So you could factually say Gen Z men were the least likely to vote for Trump as well
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The America Party run by a South African.
Popcorn is not enough for this country.
of all the things to shit on him for this isn't it. being multi cultural is the only culture we have and almost all of us are immigrants.
I shit him for the name of the Party, not being South African.
White rich South African are devoid of culture just like every other rich profligate. They have no nation, creed, or ideals just an insatiable avarice.
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What kind of shitty click bait is this?
The richest man in the world officially announced on Saturday that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike.
He fucking tweeted that it was created, literally nothing official.
And when the president tweets it's for some reason official and should be followed... We live in a really stupid age where the government and politics in the US is governed by social media.
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I'm surprised he didn't try to meme it up and call it the Lemon Party.
America party?
really?
I'm disappointed on the uncreative name.
was hoping for something stupid.
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While on one hand I hope that people realize this is literally their government being purchased by a single rich guy and push back... I know they're far too stupid for that.
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I'm really happy about this, always thought 1 flavour of fascism wasn't enough for me /s
I love them having to pick between techbro douchey edgelord and failed game show host douchey edgelord.
Let's split that vote. Let them battle it out to get the deplorable vote and let normal Americans run this place again, FFS.
let them fight
Hey you guyz, now there is another billionaire you can donate your money to and he will do nothing for you. Cool!
....but the nazi party already existed.
Split the ring wing vote. Let them fight it out. Hopefully this could mean getting them out of the White House.
knowing musk ox, the party name will spell something juvenile
C onservatives U nited as N ationalist T rolls
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You support Elon Musk's party because the Republicans ripped you off.
I support Elon Musk's party because it will dilute the voters.
We are not equal.