Minor Party and Independent General Election Discussion

[PSOL]

This makes any party oriented around as a representative vehicle for the working class incredibly difficult to qualify unless they have a mandatory dues system and have immense membership across the United States.

For any upstart political party, especially those on the left end of the spectrum, this makes electoralism impossible unless a multiple movements organize under one organization, which is incredibly risky and requires years upon years of agreements and relationship building.

Outside of the Libertarian Party and the Green Party, and to a far lesser extent outfits like Alliance or the PSL, no other party can manage without massive change in organization and extensive spending.

I suppose this is the Democrats parallel to the Republican electoral fraud, seeking the absolute extinction of choice outside the duopoly.

[Cassandra]

And of course it's called the "For the People Act."

[StateBoiler]

Not sure what to make of this:

https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2021/01/movement-for-a-peoples-party-caught-using-forcethevote-to-undermine-the-squad/

[AltWorlder]

American Solidarity Party got an elected official

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1351205866427580420

More info about the small 400 resident village in this story:

https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2021/01/american-solidarity-party-member-appointed-to-local-office-in-ohio/

[If my soul was made of stone]

American Solidarity Party got an elected official

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1351205866427580420

More info about the small 400 resident village in this story:

https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2021/01/american-solidarity-party-member-appointed-to-local-office-in-ohio/

C. Zehnder/J. Hedges, I sense a unity ticket brewing...

[PSOL]

Oh yeah, the LMN party is suing Nebraska for apparently 20 unverified signatures leaving them off the 2021 ballot. Apparently there’s a rule where you can only do this once, which is incredibly stupid, and the deadline is quite far into the year.

Most likely they knew about such a thing and submitted it early so as to proceed onward with an expected lawsuit.

[StateBoiler]

The national Green Party have decertified the Alaska Green Party affiliate for nominating Jesse Ventura as its presidential nominee. (The former Alaska party has shown it's willing to go independently.) The Rhode Island Green Party voluntarily left the national Green Party after being threatened with decertification (did not nominate the national Green Party ticket, and kinda sorta endorsed Joe Biden). There's an issue with the Georgia Green Party that some people in the Green Party are trying to decertify them as well, pushed by the Green-created "Lavender Caucus".

https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2021/01/ri-ak-green-parties-gone-from-national-gp-is-ga-next/

Next in the gunsights of some national Greens could be the Georgia party, but for entirely different reasons. Last spring, at its state convention, the Georgia GP adopted a statement of women’s sex worker rights that some trans activists think is anti-trans. Defenders of the state party worry that Rhode Island and Alaska, whether the actions were deserved or not, are being used as dominoes. 2020 presidential nominee Howie Hawkins said last year that, at that time, he opposed de-accreditation, but he also opposed the party’s platform plank.

Language and semantics issues lay behind this. Gender-critical radical feminists stress that “gender” and “sex” are not the same thing, as well as stating that the party’s platform and the individual plank are not anti-trans.

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Unfortunately, from this perspective, the national party, on state membership requirements, talks about “gender balance” rather than “sex balance” and that could be construed in various ways. Beyond that, the state party, if a majority claims the plank is biased, be found in violation of point II.10.

My personal guess is there is a 1-in-3 chance the Georgia party faces some sort of disciplinary vote by the end of this year or earlier. If proposal 1031 linked above passes, it is possible that, should it face action, that action is less than de-accreditation.

Will that, even, be controversial enough to cause fracturing in the party?

[PSOL]

Considering that being a transphobic party has left many women to not be apart of the Green Party, and the general alienation “radical feminists” has often produced, this is a smart move in consolidation of control.

Radical feminism, in its currents of being anti-sex and gender-critical, was thoroughly discredited decades ago. With society just now going through another change in views of such topics, along with the increased focus against the entire institutional setup instead of the abstract “patriarchy”, the party is seemingly shaking up its ossified structure to bring way to the new social activists alienated or unallowed in the Democratic Party.

Now if they only can institute a line on vaccines that is reflective of scientific facts, and such a transition would be complete to make the party open to younger, dynamic actors