• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s not just that.

    Every other election debates are held by a nonpartisan organization and a third party that meets certain requirements can also join.

    Because political parties are private organizations not attached to the government.

    This election both parties agreed they will only do debates that they arrange.

    Meaning they’re in charge of who shows up, and they’ll never both agree to let anyone else join.

    People keep acting like it doesn’t matter, but it’s a big deal.

    Edit:

    Obviously RFK is a joke and won’t win, but we shouldn’t just shrug as the two private parties seize more and more power when they have zero accountability to voters and neither side will ever be held accountable by their own politicians.

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      The lower one side goes, the lower the other side goes. How are you gonna vote out fascism when the Democrats go a low as they can simply because Republicans go lower. Trump doesn’t even need to win at this point for fascism to continue encroaching because Dems will continue to strip liberties like fair debates away under the guise of stopping the other sides fascism. Every day we march rightward.