Another great article Kit! I posted the following on my Facebook today, it's too long for Twitter and I don't know where else to post it. So, I figured a comment here is as good a place as any.
Did you know, in the 2000 election voter turnout was 50%? In 1992 and 2016 it was 55%. The 2020 election had 62% turnout, the highest since 1960. Perhaps pundits should stop blaming Perot, Nader, and Stein for the way elections turned out and instead try to figure out why close to half the country didn't show up to vote. The new Forward Party is NOT running a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. We are not running any candidates in this year's midterms either. The party isn't even registered in most states. But, it is working on that. This party thinks that part of the problem with voter apathy stems from a lack of choice at the ballot box. Voting shouldn't be like going to Costco (either get the red jumbo sized item or the blue jumbo sized item). We want to show there are more than 2 choices out there, more like going to a grocery store. Our focus is on local and state elections in the coming years. We want you to have choices on the ballot and not just red or blue, but the whole rainbow. At present in most of the country's elections they don't even have a choice between red or blue, most are just red or just blue. That's not how democracy works. If you agree that having choice is at the center of a working democracy, then consider supporting the Forward Party.
Nice post! If the two parties are the root of the issue, then the solution can't come from them. I've thought for a while that the moment this country can start to move forward is when Dem and GOP supporters find themselves behind the same movement, and Forward Party could be that movement.
The media is underestimating how much Americans want a real break in the two party system. No matter which side you're on, we can all sense that this system is headed in the wrong direction. I think most of us are ready to unite behind a new vision.
Great points here. I believe eventually many of the people who have their heels dug in with the belief it is for party preservation will one day realize that a 3+ party system with RCV would only make their party stronger and more capable of accomplishing common sense legislation!
Another great article Kit! I posted the following on my Facebook today, it's too long for Twitter and I don't know where else to post it. So, I figured a comment here is as good a place as any.
Did you know, in the 2000 election voter turnout was 50%? In 1992 and 2016 it was 55%. The 2020 election had 62% turnout, the highest since 1960. Perhaps pundits should stop blaming Perot, Nader, and Stein for the way elections turned out and instead try to figure out why close to half the country didn't show up to vote. The new Forward Party is NOT running a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. We are not running any candidates in this year's midterms either. The party isn't even registered in most states. But, it is working on that. This party thinks that part of the problem with voter apathy stems from a lack of choice at the ballot box. Voting shouldn't be like going to Costco (either get the red jumbo sized item or the blue jumbo sized item). We want to show there are more than 2 choices out there, more like going to a grocery store. Our focus is on local and state elections in the coming years. We want you to have choices on the ballot and not just red or blue, but the whole rainbow. At present in most of the country's elections they don't even have a choice between red or blue, most are just red or just blue. That's not how democracy works. If you agree that having choice is at the center of a working democracy, then consider supporting the Forward Party.
Thanks for sharing Robert
Nice post! If the two parties are the root of the issue, then the solution can't come from them. I've thought for a while that the moment this country can start to move forward is when Dem and GOP supporters find themselves behind the same movement, and Forward Party could be that movement.
The media is underestimating how much Americans want a real break in the two party system. No matter which side you're on, we can all sense that this system is headed in the wrong direction. I think most of us are ready to unite behind a new vision.
Thanks Holden. Exactly. People need to look beyond party and put country first.
Great points here. I believe eventually many of the people who have their heels dug in with the belief it is for party preservation will one day realize that a 3+ party system with RCV would only make their party stronger and more capable of accomplishing common sense legislation!
Thanks Jeremy. Yeah, I hope over time more and more people come to see that.