Welp…
I fail to see how splitting up the fascists is anything but a good thing. Let them fight.
I’m sure Tesla shareholders are happy to hear he’s picked up another side project.
Don’t you remember? He’s a super genius!
Odd strategy.
Leftists won’t buy it, and most liberals aren’t going to buy it, and it might divide the right, while team blue is fracturing.
Gonna be a 4 on one, not a 3.
One obstacle all third parties face in the US is party-line voting, which favors the dominant parties.
On possible outcome is that he puts a lot of money into making third party candidates more viable, like efforts to ban party-line voting or supporting ranked choice voting. So, you could vote for the America Party candidate and then if they don’t have a majority ñ, you vote could roll over to the Dem or GOP candidate of your choice, reducing your risk of voting third party.
These changes would help Libertarian, Green and other parties as well. More choice for voters!
Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he’s going to give it.
“The America Party”?
TBH, pretty tame in Must standards. At least it’s pronounceable.
I’m surprised he didn’t go with a stupid acronym
TAP is a stupid acronym.
I hope this would split the vote among magas and republicans and the dems would be a shoe in. Sadly, I’ve lost a lot of faith in the dems and their ability to effectively fight for the people. Maybe we need even more parties?
A third party is only likely to split the vote of the people who can’t stand trump.
Cool so a third liberal party
I’m all for it. If Brewster’s Millions taught me anything it’s that involving yourself in US politics is the quickest way to lose vast sums of money.
Oh, can “aliens” start political parties in the USA?
Imma start a “British Colony” party over there; anyone want to join me? MAABCA.
He doesn’t have to run himself. He can endorse and fund people to run for him
Political parties are independent entities, not part of the government, so yes anyone can make one.
The entire Democrat demographic hates him for kissing Trumps ass.
The entire Trump demogaphic hates him for going against Trump.
And the Republican demographic have never liked him as far as I’m aware.
So… who are his voters? Probably just a convenient way to shuffle money around.
He’s completely unable to read the room. Understandable really, he doesn’t exist in the same world as the rest of us really.
This isn’t about money. It’s about Elon Musk‘s ego and will to power.
Maybe that’s the only way US will ever get a third party. I’m not an American but I do think american politics system would be significantly stronger even with a minority 3rd party. Can you imagine how powerful US would be with a diverse parlament that has true competition of ideas not just partisan voting? That’s true “checks and balances”.
The problem is the US isn’t setup for third parties to really work, all this is going to do is most likely be a spoiler vote from Republicans and give more wins to Democrats. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll win a few seats in uncompetitive districts.
We don’t need more false choice though. This would be a another bourgeois party. The cards might be shuffled a bit and the rhetoric might change but it’d still be playing the same game with the same cards. It’s still a game of “choose your favorite faction of rich people” despite the tweaks in messaging. There will still be an assurance of “nothing will fundamentally change” to the owners and donors.
are they hiring? i have many expensive ideas with zero guarantees of success
Who do you think you are, an oligarch?
I am but a simple man looking to profit off the vanity of a complete moron with more money than God.
The American Billionaires Party?
If they manage to steal half the GOPs votes, we have reason to thank him.
I’m not opposed to his.
A party composed of billionaires.
That will help in a situation where we have to do a French revolution.
Sadly, such a party would not be big enough to tear into the GOP.
I’ll just point out the risk of what I’ll call “Joe Roganing” here. Elon pretends he hates both parties while there’s no election coming up. Then when the election arrives he “makes up his mind” and endorses Republicans. This allows him to 1) attract people fed up with both parties just to hand them to Republicans, and 2) have a credible that that forces Republicans to do his bidding.
Absolutely this and I like that term “Joe Roganing”.
The funniest thing about stuff like this is that there are already a hundred political parties in the US. Every time someone says “we need a third party,” it reminds me of that xkcd comic about standards and protocols.
When people say that they want a third part I doubt they mean it literally, as in they believe there are literally only two parties, but rather I suspect they mean that they want a third party which is large and influencial.
That is a ridiculous comparison. More political parties are a good thing.
They would be, if the political and electoral system supported it.
Which is obviously not the case in the US.
I think the opportunity is better this time around.
Democrats and Republicans secured a two party system and locked everyone else out because of a few things:
- Finances and resources.
- Media coverage. During debates, they had secret handshake deals to only argue against each other, which forces media to only cover them.
Musk got resources. He spent a lot to get Orange Man in power. And TV and news is already lower on the trust scale, as the population leans towards social media.
There’s a few other issues like local/state elections that won’t be friendly to non-Democrat/non-republican parties.
Of course, this is all a pipe dream and like the libertarian party, it’ll quickly get thrown aside and the politicians will fold into one of the two parties.
Do you think there’s any chance that Musk can break whatever is formally boxing out other parties? It seems like just by being who he is right now in history, he could break things.
We need to hope he breaks the current norm in a way that doesn’t put him in power, and opens things up for proper multi-party elections in the future. That’s a lot to hope for though, I guess.
When I think about this, I can imagine Musk fans telling tales of his 4D chess moves and how his plan all along has been to overhaul and improve elections. Or some other bullshit.
Outsourcing your revolution to the billionaire oligarch has to be one of the takes of all time.
Me: Can we have Lenin?
Mom: We have Lenin at home.
Lenin at home:
Not until the US election system is changed. Until then they are just irrelevant distractions.
So, another copy of the Libertarian Party?
But even more barefacedly just “republicans who don’t want to pay their taxes”
Hey, the Libertarian Party do more than that. Like smoke weed and celebrate the idea of freedom but then rage about immigrants and ignore companies fucking them over.
