All the democrats from NY, NJ, and California moving to states like Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida has impacted and will further impact elections in the future. Republicans won’t win unless they have a polarizing figure like Trump or a young charismatic candidate that is moderate and not very conservative.
I personally think the party system is trash and we need to do something about it. These two candidates are garbage and the other parties could’ve had a huge opportunity here to win votes (Almost like Gary Johnson in 2016). The media doesn’t give any other parties attention and I feel like third party candidates do a shit job of marketing and using the internet to influence votes.
Now we are stuck with Joe Biden for a couple years and then a Marxist in Kamala Harris for the rest of the term.
Yang 2024
yeah Gary Johnson the pothead with his brain fried is a great example of third party candidates
I'm just stating that he actually got a decent chunk of votes. I believe a third party candidate has the ability to actually compete for votes especially if they run a good campaign. There was no better time than now for someone to step up outside of the Republican or Democratic parties, and nobody took advantage. All it takes nowadays is an internet movement.
If a third party candidate ever gets big in this current climate, it will simply be a repeat of Ross Perot. The political tribalism runs too deep for any other party to make wiggle room. All you can hope for is that demographics shift just enough for the DNC and GOP to actually listen
A Ross Perot is exactly what we need. If Yang ran as an independent in this election and took part in the debates I honestly think he’d have gotten at least 20,000,000 votes. Someone similar can make a push in the next election I believe. (But IMO this election was the best time for a third party candidate to make a statement and they failed miserably)
Wtf none of this logic ever makes sense to me. How can you guys truly believe that Andrew Yang is the best candidate for America and then somehow make the jump all the way to Trump. Biden will be a lot closer to Andrew Yang on like every issue ever and was even endorsed by him. You say you want Andrew Yang yet you pull for Trump? This is just like 2016 where all the progressive democrats said Clinton wasn't good enough. You guys say you want this stuff but then vote completely opposite of it because it's not exactly what you wanted. If you were a true Yang supporter you would realize like he did, that Biden would be a lot closer of a candidate to him then Trump would be.
"According to three Insider polls of voters who hadn't decided whether they're voting Republican or Democrat, 46% said they would be satisfied with him as the nominee, the highest level of support among any Democratic candidate. Former Vice President Joe Biden held the next-highest percentage of undecided voters, with 42%."
https://www.businessinsider.com/right-leaning-voters-support-andrew-yang-2020-1 (good article that might explain why Yang swayed 2016 Trump voters)
Yang appeals to me a lot more than two 70+ year old men (one an internet troll, the other deteriorating mentally). Yang is more relatable and is a young fresh face. He speaks well and his motto "not left, not right, forward" is something I also believe in. Took a while to learn and get used to his UBI plan but I can get over it. Stimulus checks worked out during the pandemic. I can see it happening more often in the future. I agree with his outlook that automation will one day replace many jobs and we have to prepare and not avoid it. Some of the things I disagree with him on are the taxes he'd propose on Wall Street trades, and his VAT taxes.
(Also Yang, and most democratic leaders/candidates, are
expected to endorse the leader of their party)