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  1. Ellison is the second-best person running for DNC chair. Best being Ronan, IMHO.
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  2. Amazin69 - 1) You're talking as if Parties have never changed before. The Democrats are not always the way they've been now. They've changed ideologies 3 times in their history, they can do it again. This isn't just about winning 2020 and 2024, this is about making the Democratic Party the social democratic party it used to be from 1935-1985. 2) Look how the Greens did this time. They've been around for decades already. If with all the Progressive energy and the record unfavorability of Trump and Hillary they couldn't get more than 1% of the popular vote, they're not going to magically gain 60-75,000,000 new voters between now and 2020. They only got around 4,000,000 this time. The Greens have almost no infrastructure, no state-level offices held, no state Party funding apertures, no voter mobilization organizations, they get no ads or airtime and no presence on debate stages. Having all these things helps. LIKE A LOT. That's why Bernie was able to rise so quickly, because he could exploit already-existing Democratic Party mass infrastructure in situ and Media to spread his message. Along with a very Internet-savvy team. Jill was crippled by lacking this infrastructure, not being able to participate in debates and having no adspace. Unless you think Bernie was just that much better of a politician than Jill that he got nearly 4x more votes. Jill and Ajamu's town halls and Internet responses to the debates had a small fraction of the views the national TV debates got. Growing a Party from scratch is a long and arduous process. You don't go from 0 to half the country in just 4 years starting from nothing. Look at any industrialized country. No dominant Party rose to prominence in just 1 or 2 election cycles unless they're a split-off group of a previously existing major party (like the Justice Democrats). On average it takes 10-25 years for parties to start from scratch and become a major national party. The Republicans didn't win a national Election until almost 20 years after the fall of the Whigs. The far-right UKIP in the UK and the National Front took almost 30 years to get to the level they're at now. You're being unrealistic, quite frankly, if you think it'll take less than 10 years for the Greens to become a national party on the level of the Democrats and Republicans. They need to get above 15% approval just to be allowed on debate stages. 15x better than they did last year. You need to convince tens of millions of people to switch their current affiliations in the next 24-48 months. Even with all the chaos last year, only about 20 million or so changed their affiliation.
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  3. uruguayan bob - That'll take 10-20 years. Third Parties won't become a national force at the snap of a finger. No third party holds any office at any level of government and isn't even talking about who to run in the 2018 Midterms for local and Congressional offices. I want Third Parties to rise, but realistically it'll be at least another decade minimum. In the meantime, Trump will get a 2nd term and Pence or Cruz will win in 2024. I favor the two-pronged approach: Justice Democrats and growing the Greens. Putting all your eggs in one basket isn't smart. The Justice Democrats' platform actually removes barriers for 3rd parties and proposes the Democrats work with the Greens.
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  4. luckydoodle77 - Most of the Democrats who exited went Independent. Not Green, unfortunately. If Bernie walked away he'd lose all the infrastructure he currently has access to and would have to finance everything going he does out of pocket. He'd no longer be on TV. It'd basically be the end of him. Only people under 30-35 would know what he's up to because of the Internet. He'd likely do no better than Jill did in 2016. Unless you think Bernie is just that superior of a politician compared to Jill. The problem is the system is currently set up in such a way that it's almost impossible for 3rd Parties to be national contenders. They're not even really local contenders. The Justice Democrats have it as part of their platform to remove those barriers.
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