Musk could be trying to get Trump impeached.
Political parties in the USA can nominate whoever they want to be their nominee. Who they nominate could be either left-wing or right-wing.
The America Party can strategically split the vote and give the Democratic Party a supermajority in the House and Senate. Or they could strategically split the vote of the Democrats. They don't have to win; they just have to strategically prevent the Democrat or Republican from winning.
Most third parties struggle to raise money and have to fight to stay on the ballot. Because of Citizens United, there is unlimited funding of super PACs. They could saturate all the ad buys in that media market. You could possibly see over $100 million in super PACs just to prevent the Trump-aligned GOP candidate from winning.
Could the GOP candidate win an election being outspent ten or one hundred to one by a super PAC and beat a Democrat challenger at the same time? In a safe district, yes. But what about more competitive districts? All the people that voted for the Big Billionaire Bill either get primaried by a Musk-aligned Republican, or the vote gets split by the America Party candidate.
They don't have to win. The America Party could strategically split the vote and get the Democratic Party a supermajority in Congress. They could easily split the vote of the Democrats also. Trump would get impeached. JD Vance is then the puppet of Thiel and Musk.
If we use approval voting or score voting, we could prevent vote splitting from happening in elections. We seriously need a constitutional amendment to ban corporate free speech protection and corporate lobbying. We should have publicly funded elections and a land value tax.
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So anyone who doesn't kneel and worship some person in the White House will be banished to a foriegn gulag?
They are afraid of what he represents.
Which of those extremes does most of the population benefit the most from?
We know what authoritarianism is. What is the opposite of that?
Democrats should put progressive issues on the ballot this year. They could put in a $17 minimum wage and a progressive land value tax (that replaces the state property tax) to fund state social programs cut by the Republicans.
What's left over after funding local social safety nets goes to a basic income program for the poor and middle class. They could also put no voter purges 179 days from the election, make election day a holiday for state employees, and drive-through voting on the ballot.
Democrats could put upzoning on the state ballot to increase the housing supply and drive prices down. The GOP would be running against populist programs and Democratic candidates at the same time.
Trump’s crackdown on immigrants has fueled legislation to restrict access to the ballot in more than two dozen states.
It's not a good idea having incompetent cult members in positions of power.