• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    And how much control does Bernie and the other independents have? Not much… He generally votes with the Democrats and occasionally speaks out

    We don’t need another 5 independents. We need a couple dozen in a cohesive voting block. We need enough that Democrats will be forced to negotiate with them (because maga won’t)

    It’s very hard to win as an independent, but it can be done. We need more then that though - we need a party, we need the network of organizers, the infrastructure for donations, and to integrate with 50 slightly different systems for elections

    And most importantly, you need name recognition

    All these things would take years of maintained effort to establish, but they exist - better to become a key faction of the democratic party than to compete with them directly