New polling shows a record number of Americans identify as Independent and favor a new political party. Nick Troiano of Unite America joins Morning Joe to discuss his recent column on why America doesn’t have the third party it wants. Aired on 02/22/2021.
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That party would destroy and split the vote. And pave the way for more Trumpers.
I wanted the third party to be MODERATES but it seems like the only chance at a third party is if they are LIBERTARIANS
Trump will call his the Massive Dump party.
a larger congress, say twice the current size, would allow more ‘fringe’ candidates
We are a failing democracy because of 1) the electoral college 2) plurality voting 3) the senate.
This is what Richard Wolff has been saying so often.
With the rupturing of the GQP due to tRump, the country now has a third party capable of at least getting a lot of votes, even if not winning. Of course, everyone hoped for something a little more noble and intelligent, but, oh well.
There ARE other parties, the monetary hurdles and others keep them from being viable at the national level. The two major parties write the rules to maintain their authority. It’s wrong!
Keep dark money and religion out of politics and implement rank choice voting nationwide!
STAPH Party.
Scientific/Transparent/Accountable/Progressive/Honest party.
Put the numbers up on a board and have public debates about options.
As a former Green Party member, I can tell you exactly why America doesn’t have a viable “third party.” First, the Democrats and Republicans, while presumably politically opposite, have spent years working together to keep the system rigged against any other potential opponents, creating rules to make it nearly impossible for anyone else to even get on the ballot in many states. Second, the America people are themselves to blame. They REFUSE to “throw away” their vote on a party that “doesn’t have a chance of winning.” But they WOULD have a chance if you’d f_cking VOTE FOR THEM!
American democracy has defects but this presidential term limit is a good one Otherwise it may look like Modi banana India.
Charisma. A third party needs to have a known person with charisma. A party dedicated to the constitution, Democracy, etc. A party not cntrolled by dark money, etc. A party willing to work for the benefits of the average American and fulfill their needs. Perhaps even a forth party
I will be 70 next year. I was way farther LEFT in 1969 than I am now. You might as well call
the Progressives the Hippie Party with Cell phones and Twitter. Humans would not be living as
comfortably or as far north as we do without fossil fuel. Rather than wasting your time
on Twitter trying to OWN Trump and Tim Pool and jabbering about how horrible EVERYONE is.
Maybe you should go buy a revolver for protection.
the country would have voted third party in 2016 if our so called two corrupt parties wasn’t dictating who was going to be in the debates . Turn the debates back over to the woman’s league of voters or another non partisan group like it should have been before the two parties took full control of it and its rules !
Ranked Choice voting works fine in Maine. The real key to improve our Democracy is to end “Citizens United”. Big corporate interests have never been good for our country.
The Alaska model is an excellent beginning.
Still think if trump thought his brand was good enough, he and his offspring would form a ‘trump party’. But, they know it would never win.
We have 3 parties, Republicans, Demcracts, and Independents.
The GOP’s are a fkn world wide joke!!
You can forget about a 3rd party as long as you have winner-takes-all/first-past-the-post elections.
It’s simply game theory … that kind of elections converge to two-party systems. The UK has the same problem (although slightly milder)
Yeah ultra far right racist, religious clans men, domestic terrorists, conspiracy freaks.
What scares the republicans right now, is the possibility of getting a third party they sure as heck do not want – growing out of the Trump cult.