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Start a new political party, the 'American Progressive Majority'. (i.redd.it)

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Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like "liberal" and "conservative".

A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as "to the left" or "to the right" of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.

Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Drop the anti-gun arguments; they aren't based on reality.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a lot easier to unite people if we have a cohesive plan for what happens after we win.

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[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (28 children)

I agree with every single one of those except for the taking away my guns part. The second amendment is vitally important for the exact reason of what we are going through right now: the overtaking of the US government by oppressive fascists.

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[–] all4theTomatoes@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I believe this will achieve exactly nothing. The whole system is rigged against the people, neither the republicans nor the democrats (aside from a few sore thumbs) work for the interest of the people. And you can bet you're bottom dollar if there ever was a new political party the democrats and republicans will work hand-in-hand to prevent this new party from taking power.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Any party that tries to be created with populism but ignores the materialist analyist of how we got to this point and how to combat reactionary thinking and regressivism (which is conservatism, which is why its a universal flaw) will only fall to the same tactics and pitfalls that have led us to this division in the first place. We need a true worker's parry that understands that division of power and group interests lay on class lines (capitalists vs workers) and not on any of the manufacturered scapegoat ones. Progressive ideas are popular yes, but they need to come with actual systematic analysis or they will just morph into right-wing populism through lack of critical thinking and bad actors.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe more of us should own guns right now.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I got some. I’m not good with letting those ghouls be the only armed ones

[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Lol. This was exactly what I was going to post.

[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Meh, I'm guessing there already is some small party that ticks all those boxes. I'm guessing independents, or some random party could win certain local races if the Dem and Rep are both very unpopular, and the media gives them air time (that may be hard). Unfortunately, I don't think the next presidential election will be valid election, and I don't think the state-level elections in red states will be valid either. Having other parties can be useful for getting messaging out (again, if the media gives them air-time), but the country looks like it's going full fascist, which will probably need mass direct action, or war, to unseat.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If only we had a progressive Senator and Congresswoman to lead this new party.

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