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A New Political Party is the Way Forward
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman have founded a new party known as the Forward Party, and it has already announced candidates who will be running for office in the midterm elections.
The party is focused on depolarizing America and healing the division, but without proposing policies that are directly in the center, since they also do not move America “forward.” Because it is open to candidates who lean right and left, it is bipartisan, but it also the definition of progressive, because its platform consists of many radical new ideas—like Yang’s plan for universal basic income (UBI). It may sound like an oxymoron, but the Forward Party might just be America’s first “bipartisan progressive party.”
Could a third party be the thing that unites all rational Americans in a war against corruption, political extremism, and Trumpism? It is hard to say, since neither side seems to be too interested in compromise, and divisive issues like abortion and gun control make any kind of reconciliation difficult to imagine. And what new big ideas is the Forward Party offering that make it something radically different from the Democratic party?
I, for one, believe it is a step in the right direction, though I understand if some think the Forward Party is too young to stand a real chance in the next presidential election. However, if there was ever a time that a third party actually stood a chance, it is right now. If the Forward Party’s presidential candidate seems like the best choice for America, a reasonable strategy would be to support that candidate right up until the moment it seems like defeating Trump is no longer possible. At that point, the Forward Party candidate would urge their supporters to vote for the candidate who can ensure Trump never gets back into the oval office. But if the Forward Party’s pick is polling well and has a chance to win, then it would seem like the perfect opportunity to break America’s infamous two-party system. According to the Washington Post, a growing number of experts believe that the way to fix democracy is to move beyond the two-party system....
3/20 disaster socialism?!
https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/we-are-all-andrew-yang-mitt-romney-stuns-observers-with-proposal-to-give-every-adult-american-1000-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Black%20Pill
The phrase “clown world” and accompanying emojis unify far-right social media users in their exasperation over an imagined state of collapse in the Western hemisphere that they largely blame on immigrants and minority groups. The force driving “Honkler” across the far-right is the same bleak worldview that led white nationalists to**embrace**Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. In their minds, if there is nothing that they can do to stop the supposed “great replacement” of white people in their “homelands” and no politicians who care enough about their cause to implement real policies that favor their agenda, they may as well accept the outcome and wrench whatever they can out of the system, like Yang’s promise of $1,000 per month universal basic income. This mentality is often referred to as “black pilling.”
see 4 chan, pepe, clown
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/what-do-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-actor-nicolas-cage-and-musician-rivers-cuomo-have-in-common-theyve-all-signed-on-as-donors-for-this-long-shot-democratic-candidate/
Andrew Yang is not among the more high-profile candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Nonetheless, the 44-year-old entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit Venture for America (VFA) raised almost $2 million for his campaign during 2019’s first quarter — and Yang reported, on April 16, that one of his donors is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
On Twitter, Yang thanked Dorsey for his support and noted that he uses “at least one of your products every day.”
Other high-profile donors to Yang’s campaign, according to the New York City resident, have ranged from actor Nicolas Cage to Rivers Cuomo (lead singer/frontman for the alternative rock band Weezer) to Netflix/Disney Channel star Noah Centineo to tech investor Sam Altman.
On April 16, Yang tweeted that he “will put our celebrity donor list of Nicolas Cage, Rivers Cuomo, Noah Centineo and Sam Altman up against anyone’s.”....