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[–] Westdragon@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Want to build a viable third party for presidential elections? Start small at the city/county level and eventually you will have candidates at the state/federal level. Today's city council is tomorrow's senator/president. Does it really surprise anyone that a relatively unknown and unproven candidate outside of the two major parties doesn't get any traction in a federal election?

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

That takes money, lots of it and the 2 main parties have huge corporate donors who will never give money to an environmental party

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

That's already the goal of state chairs for third parties.