Don’t think that’s “capitalist propaganda” as we just found out what the rich will do when faced with higher taxation. They take over the country. In the absence of that possibility, they would absolutely put their HQ somewhere else. No one sets up shop in Ireland because they think the weather is nicer there.

That’s good! No seriously, PLEASE start writing a long party manifesto with points you research thoroughly. Start with the topic most dear to you. Then look up why this has not been done yet, if there were previous attempts, why they failed, how they could succeed. Try to think about all other aspects of life a policy you would enact would touch.

For example, could investing more into railways cause a decline in car sales and subsequent loss of jobs? Could you maybe license high-speed rail technology from Japan or China, in exchange for easing of microchip sanctions on them? Things like that.

Do that, and over time you will be a fully aware and engaged citizen, deserving of the title. Even if your new party doesn’t work out, you would end up with way more knowledge about good governance than even many in Congress today. No need to scream into the void, people with their heart in the right spot like you are in the majority, not minority. You’re not alone.

Also check out your state third parties and see if there is already a party that comes close to what you want for the country. Almost every state has them in some form, but most people don’t even know they exist. The Forward Party comes to mind. There’s also the “Liberal Party USA”, though they are in dire straits.

My phone is 10 years old and screams at me every time I “need” to install a new app for some stupid service I want to use. My gym has an app. My public transit. My car. My bank. My boba tea place. I look at it maybe twice a day, to see if my wife wrote anything about some chores I gotta do after work, and to turn off the alarm. Curiously, my circle of friends and friend-interaction has shrunk the more “BETTER CONNECTED ™” we became through social media over the years. The better my old group of friends and I became “connected”, the more everyone drifted apart.

Kill your social media accounts, delete your streaming platforms, don’t fall for the dumb distractions like Ghibly avatars

Amen brother. I’d even go as far and say we need to ban smart phones. We are not ready for them yet. Evidently.

Hey, before I tear this down and get hated on for it, let me just say that I appreciate your spirit. You are trying to do something, and that alone instantly elevates you above 95% of the rest of the US population.

My opinion on this/your party is that it seems very haphazard. The platform basically describes the Democrats and the DNC, so how is the Bull Moose Party different? Even your more “liberal” demands such as ranked choice voting, abolishing money in politics and corporate tax reforms are all things Democrats every now and then dangle as a carrot in front of us. You now might be tempted to say “Yes, but WE mean it!”. I believe you, but that still leaves the question “how”?

How would you stop the “ultra wealthy” from simply leaving the country and taking their businesses and wealth with them after you try to raise their taxes? You can argue that the country doesn’t need them, but then how do you pay for the extremely costly policy ideas you describe further down, such as making higher education “free”? How do you build a high speed railway, and how would you convince the individual states to do it? How do you get the land necessary to build this railway? What if it runs through reservations or natural protected areas? And are we not doing very heavy AI research investments already? Who would you give those AI research investments to? Because right now there are only 3 companies in the US with the infrastructure of actually doing that research, and those are: Microsoft, Meta and the company of Elon Musk. All three of those will flee the country if you present them with an increased tax bill, if not send assassins after you.

It’s nice that you outright ban “wars of aggression”, but no one has ever run on a platform of “let’s do more wars”. Everyone says they will only “defend” themselves. In fact humanity has never fought a war of simple aggression ever since antiquity. All aggressors insist it’s only a defense and noble cause, from Putin, to Bush, to Hitler. To put that in practice, how would you deal with Russia right now if your party was in charge and had full control? You would quickly find that armed conflict is inevitable, and thus you would eventually break your promise of “no wars of aggression” to your constituents.

Even something as straight-forward and morally upright such as “restoring relations with our long term allies” requires at this point a serious explanation HOW the Bull Moose Party would achieve this. No one trusts the US anymore because the government makes a 180 turn every 4 to 8 years. Could you promise other countries the US will never have someone like Trump in charge again? And now that Europe is getting independent and Canada looks to Asia and Europe as well, why would they ever want to come back?

Eh, you get the idea. In short, the platform is too broad, not detailed at all, seems like a daydream and personally I’m missing any creativity and good ideas in there that differentiate you from the DNC. Put in something interesting like “we bring back gladiator arena games to the death and livestream them on Netflix” or “people dressing up as Darth Vader on May 4th get a 1% tax cut next season” (half-joking of course).

Lastly, Discord is trash. You need a viable, respectable forum, that is used by more people than a heavily male skewed early-zoomer audience for gaming and shitposting. Back to the drawing board, write a manifesto on WHAT you want to achieve and HOW you plan on achieving each point and WHY. Refrain from using empty and useless statements such as “we believe in the pursuit of happiness”. Elon Musk also believes that, and he pursues his happiness by becoming the Kaiser of the American Reich. I sound harsh and demoralizing, but that’s because I like what you are trying to do. If I thought it was shit, I would have just memed on you and moved on instead of writing a blog.

It’s sad yet vindicating how Germans have been rehabilitated retrospectively these last 2 months if not earlier.

So our technological progress has brutally outgrown our cultural one. I think you’re right.

No.

The redacted part included actionable details and apparently names of agents, bases and a description of their military capabilities or lack thereof. Publishing that WILL get those people killed, Russia has a lot of planes around the middle east. It would not serve the public at all, as it should be more concerned about the intent to bomb a country based on pretty much nothing and the obvious problem of a security breach. It would however serve foreign adversaries. Which brings me to my next question, who the f is “Ken Klippenstein” and is he maybe paid by an entity that absolutely would love to know those juicy military details?

First off, Republicans will not ever “flee” to the Democrats. The rules in the MAGA party are very simple: You swear undying fealty to King Trump, and you will win your local elections or at least not get primaried by someone Trump likes better. You step out of line, and your career in politics and possibly life are over. This basically guarantees you your job, which is all 95% of politicians care about.

In fact, you are already seeing Democrats collaborating with Trump for this exact reason. Job security. Principles? Who gives a shit. Ask Fetterman all about it.

Second, the DNC has always been in a civil war with itself. Bernie Sanders is not new (mildly put). But right now that civil war is on a low-burner, because the only “progressive idea” everyone is championing right now is: “Let’s have a system where people can vote for their next king…I mean “president”. Remember when we did that? We should maybe do that again…somehow”.

We have already regressed about 150 years in just 2 months of Trump. Just today Mike Johnson is musing about getting rid of federal judges, the pitiful mini-check on Trumps power. The Democratic party will either have to engage in good old streetfights and become a revolutionary party, or they will find themselves in concentration camps. And that is not hyperbole. When Hitler finally had free reign after dismantling the German constitution via bullshit, the first thing he did is put the socialists and communists in camps. He did that LONG before he ever moved against jews. Killing the opposition party is always step one.

I don’t think Yang is a congressman. He lost all elections. Did he win a state election somewhere? The Forward party is doing pretty well though. Yang is only a co-founder for it and gets wheeled out for meetups sometimes. I thought about joining up since I like their platform, but they also seem to be pretty do-nothing but bitch and moan. My rule is very simple. First party to throw molotov cocktails gets my vote and throwing-arm.

Don’t care what’s a dirty word where, I don’t self-censor. Yeah outside the US liberal means market-liberal (libertarians). The Liberal party USA is a splinter of libertarians as well. They had a fall-out at a libertarian convention in 2022, where it became clear libertarians were bought by Russia, started calling for appeasement to Russia and some members started being overtly racist. About a fifth of the caucus left the convention in disgust and formed the “Liberal Party”, which is actually pretty socially progressive while retaining fiscal conservatism. As for third party math, all it would need to take for third parties to work is for people to vote for it. Have enough people do that and dems might actually re-align. It just can’t continue on like this.

No. Or not yet.

Do you know about the actual liberal party USA? Not a toothless “wing” of the Democratic party. I mean the ACTUAL liberal party we have in this country? They got less votes than Vermin Supreme last election. I hope they will do better next election, but it still won’t amount to even 0.1% of all votes. Because Americans still believe voting third party is “throwing your vote away”, while voting for actual traitors (democrats) or just giving up and voting for the king is the way to go. As long as AOC and others cling to the ramshackle ruin that is the DNC, there straight up is no hope. It is a calcified collection of geriatrics and powerless minorities without a clear goal and no leadership except the already retired ones who play the stock market (Obamas, Pelosis, Bidens…). Look at the dead-eyed onion that is Hakeem Jeffries. “Here is your Obama 2.0 but in boring, pls vote for us. Eminem is endorsing us after we gave him some money, SURELY you will vote for us now?”. Controlled opposition.

Progressive take-over will happen after the second civil war, or not at all.

Exactly. Social-democracy is the way forward, I just wish there was a party that would focus on restoring the rules based order and general personal liberties, without getting baited into endless culture wars on hyperspecific topics like trans rights by conservatives. I figure saying this is unpopular on very liberal skewing platforms such as here, but I consider this a huge reason why the middle has largely abandoned Democrats. Feels like Democrats lost the plot and now everything else with it.

Say, for example, someone started a “Socialist” party. Running mainly on domestic issues such as worker’s rights, proportional taxation, rescinding the idea that corporations are people in the eyes of the law. But WITHOUT a clear stance on culture war baggage such as trans rights, DEI related talking points and “wokeness”. Those would be considered state issues and not a domain for the federal government since it distracts from actual geopolitical issues such as wars and climate change catastrophe mitigation.

Would anyone be interested in that? Basically a party that focuses on issues in a similar way AOC does. Socialist, but not communist as I consider the US constitution and the right of elections untouchable. Liberal-socialist, in a way.

If 11 million people strike, then 11 people will be fired immediately after and replaced by a different 11 million. Plus the demands are too broad to get a unified strike going. “General malcontent about the state of things” doesn’t roll off the tongue. Don’t worry, once things get bad enough strikes, large scale protests, riots and armed insurgencies follow automatically.

If you make politics for everyone, you make politics for no one.

There are two reasons why you stop corporate advocacy. You’ve either ran out of money, or the goal you’ve sought to accomplish, was accomplished. I didn’t see him begging in the streets yet. So I guess whatever the end goal of his advocacy war has been achieved.

We should ban all algorithms on social media, period. Not just Xitter or TikTok, but also Youtube. You should NEVER be presented with information that a corporation has decided to force-feed you. Not just because of the obvious implication of manipulation, but also because it degenerates a person’s ability to seek out desired information themselves. There is basically no young person (zoomer) left in the US who still knows how to look up information from sources or find desired media themselves. Everyone relies on their start-page recommendation, curated by the company. And just mindlessly scrolls from there. No one looks up information to answer questions they might have, but instead type their question into Grok or whatever, and take whatever is presented to them as fact.

And if we can’t ban algorithms, then we must ban all social media entirely. Everyone gets their news from a newspaper thrown at their door, 2 weeks out of date. You might not believe it, but that unironically would solve almost all issues plaguing the world right now. It’s just that we don’t want to give up the positives aspects and entertainment, too.

It’s heartwarming to see all of Trumps appointees agreeing they REALLY suck ass and have no idea what their agency is actually doing, and thus seek to abolish themselves. From USPS, to Department of Education, to Congress itself.

Yes, unfortunately. Not only is it morally acceptable, but pretty much unavoidable if meaningful change is sought to be enacted. To put it this way, if political violence was inherently “wrong”, then the entire United States of America should not exist. The British did not leave our shores because we’ve asked nicely or protested a lot. We’ve tried both of these things and the response was military intervention. Nazi Germany was not defeated by strongly worded letters either (that was also tried!).

However I strongly believe violence must be proportional to the offense and follow a plan. Random riots achieve nothing. Let’s not dance around the issue. The question here is if violence against the Trump administration is permissible (yet). And right now the answer is no. Because a) elections have not been abolished yet or interference has made free elections impossible or farcical, and b) Trump and his unelected sycophants are still broadly moving within the confines of “the law” as applied during a time when the US actually cared about strong checks and balances.

Grandpa certainly doesn’t have a strong mandate, but he has “a” mandate to enact his political will for 4 years. That however will change dramatically if he moved against basic constitutional rights, such as now as he is trying to ban all media critical of him. The proportional and correct violent response then would be to destroy media outlets shilling for the president.