• Filthmontane@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Well I don’t see nearly as much ballot access from the PSL or any other minor party. Maybe we should make a new party that’ll lose popularity to the next one in 5 years. No party will ever be leftist enough for leftists in this country and that pretentious mindset will keep us weak forever.

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      16 days ago

      How does that saying go? “If ballot access were candy and nuts we’d all be eating steak!”

      There are absolutely ultras in America but it’s not a position necessary to recognize that the Green Party isn’t leftist. I’d say at the very least the greens can’t be called leftist for the same reason the dubious moniker “progressive” isn’t any marker of the same: their platform is explicitly not left.

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          14 days ago

          There are other parties that are both more left, more explicitly align with my politics and do not have a dubious history of triangulation.

          The greens are not the best available option any more than the democrats are.