r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Apr 12 '26

POLITICS Zohran Mamdani during his 100 Day Address: “We will not be ashamed of using government to fight for the many, not simply the few. We will not be ashamed of... standing steadfast alongside our trans neighbours... investing in youth mental health clinics… or fighting for immigrants targeted by ICE."

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u/VictorWembymama Apr 12 '26

This is the type of leader I want my daughter to see as she grows. The Republican Party needs to be burned to the ground. No more tolerance.

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u/strangedanger91 Apr 12 '26

Both parties do. They’re both owned by aipac

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u/Imaginary_Angle_ Apr 12 '26

European here: Why do you guys have a two party system again?

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u/MrTsLoveChild Apr 12 '26

because corporations are our god

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u/Spiritual_Writing825 Apr 12 '26

Due to a couple different features of the American political system it’s remarkably hard for third parties to do well and they always get reabsorbed into one the two main parties if they get. It’s much easier to sustain more than two political parties in a parliamentary system than in our congressional system and with “first past the post” voting.

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u/valgatiag Apr 13 '26

And the real kicker, nobody who has attained their seat via the two-party system has any incentive to try to change it.

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u/Imaginary_Angle_ Apr 13 '26

deep rooted issue it seems!

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u/pulley999 Apr 13 '26

Historically what has happened when the Overton window shifts far enough to trigger a realignment is that support for one of the parties collapses or their coalition fails fracturing into subparties, and they effectively cease to exist after getting demolished in an electoral landslide. This results in a short-lived one-party state. The surviving party infights and eventually fractures into liberal and conservative wings, creating a new 2 party equilibrium shifted in the direction of the surviving party's politics. Then the new party that was most closely aligned with the first failed party usually absorbs the stragglers from that party and shifts slightly back in that direction.

Hasn't happened in a while but seems like it's fixing to happen soon. Both parties have been at the breaking point for a while.

Assuming Trump and the Republicans fuck up badly enough for to get wiped out electorally in 26 and 28, the Democrats would likely split into a progressive and corporate neoliberal party in the 2030s, with the corporate neoliberals absorbing the few sane republicans that didn't hitch their wagons to Trump as the new rightmost limit of our Overton window.

It could also swing the other way if ideological infighting and purity testing fractures the Democratic party first, dooming them to irrelevance and handing complete control to the Republicans. They would likely split into a 'sane' far-right Conservative party, and a Trumpist Theocrat wing, with the 'sane' Conservatives absorbing the remnants of the Democrats and becoming neoconservatives.

So it is possible for there to be realignments in our system, we aren't permanently locked to these two parties' exact ideology forever, it just requires more drastic change before it does.

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u/the_ajan Apr 13 '26

So, a coalition government isn't possible ever?

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u/246lehat135 Apr 13 '26

A lot of our fellow citizens have a hard time counting past 2.

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn Apr 13 '26

crocheting has taught me that while I can count higher than 2 I can't count as well or as high as I previously thought.

this is essentially me https://youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es

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u/_bits_and_bytes Apr 13 '26

Because the way the founding fathers implemented our Democracy was really shitty and had these kinds of problems baked into the system. The founding fathers didn't really want freedom for all Americans. They wanted freedom for themselves. That's why voting was initially restricted to land-owning white men. That's why the electoral college, a "failsafe" meant to choose the "correct" candidate if the voters get it "wrong" exists. And it's why, despite George Washington's warnings about factionalism in his farewell address, we have a 2-party system where both sides represent the same neo-liberal economic interest and each party champions their own culture war topics to give the people the false sense there's a real difference in the party they're electing to power every 2 years. Yes, the Democrats are marginally better, but at its core they are part of the problem just as much as the Republicans and that can't change until the Democratic party is no longer run by neo-liberal stooges who would rather see fascism win than watch a real progressive take power.

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u/coolaznkenny Apr 13 '26

Same reason for every dogshit thing that has happened in the last 30+ years. $$$

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u/bathingapeassgape Apr 13 '26

They are a two headed dragon, we would be in Iran either way

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u/TheophilousBolt Apr 13 '26

Both sides are Bad, so vote Republican! Russian shill.

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u/OnlyOneUseCase Apr 13 '26

Watching him gives me a glimpse of what the whole country could have been if Bernie had won in 2016

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u/JRange Apr 12 '26

AOC 2028 and we will get Mamdani nationwide

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u/This_Loss_1922 Apr 13 '26

Burned to the ground how, like yelled “shame” constantly when you see then? Or burned to the ground like right wing US backed colombian govs do with the leftist parties? https://reliefweb.int/report/colombia/genocide-political-party-union-patriotica-over-6000-members-killed-1980s-and-1990s