America's Weird, Small Political Parties Explained - TLDR News

While US Politics is dominated by the Democrats and Republicans, they aren't the only two political parties you might see on the ballot. And while parties like the Libertarians and Greens get some press, they're unlikely to gain any power at the federal level. So why on Earth do parties smaller than they are even bother? In this video, we look at America's fringe parties, the ones who have no real shot at winning but for some reason still take part.

Ft: The American Solidarity Party, The American Independent Party, The Peace & Freedom Party, The Party for Socialism & Liberation, and The Alliance Party

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[jamesranjithkumar]

Socialists: Workers of the world unite
Also Socialists roughly every 10 years: Let's split up gang

[EverettBurger]

One lesson from Tuesday's election I'm Virginia was "All Politics Are Local".

If any third party is going to make inroads in the US, they will have to think about concentrating on local elections: school boards, town councils, county seats, etc.

[hurd]

Smaller parties are very interesting, the deeper you go, the weirder they get.

[KamiInValhalla]

The only way for these parties to succeed are to start at the bottom. Meaning city mayor for example. You will not win on the national level until you win on the local level.

[Evannnnnnnn]

A good chunk of these parties (particularly the solidarity party) sound like they would be pretty normal in any other country

[ricardocorrea]

Important to mention that the PSL last week had the best vote share of any socialist candidate in NYC since the 1950s with more than 25 thousand votes in NYC alone

[JJMcCullough]

Peace and Freedom is the party Rosanne ran for, right?

[technetium]

A socialist party : splits
A few years later : wanna see us do it again ?

[Teag_Brohman]

how can anyone think that 2 parties can represent so many people

they can't

[JC-jzry]

Analyzing these parties just by presidential elections is a little limiting. For example, the PSL does put forth presidential candidates, but my understanding is that they are more focused on local elections and engaging communities outside of electoral politics.

[xboxman]

This was quite interested, though none of these parties will relevant on either a state or national level until ranked choice voting is adopted.

[smfe]

American Solidarity is like the opposite of Libertarians.
Libertarians are fiscally conservative and socially progressive, while Solidarity-ists are fiscally liberal and socially conservative.

[spudders]

Would love to see US politics adopt a european style model and move away from the traditional 2 party system

[PoliticsMadeSimple]

Yes! Happy to see someone talk about smaller parties 👍

[Autconscipatheonive]

Cover more European fringe parties. Like French, Italian, Swedish and German ones.

[joaovitormatos]

No one:

Literally no one:

Not a single soul:

Socialists when no one's around: 7:04

[andus]

Wow, I really need to do more research into the American Solidarity Party. I've become disillusioned with the Republicans and I want a more central party to vote for. I'm excited to study now, lol

[nerdwizard]

As an American and a former Conservative Republican, I'm glad to now be following the American Solidarity Party, myself, for the foreseeable future. I was spouting Distributist talking points long before I even knew who Belloc and Chesterton were.

[blade_boibb]

PSL member: we haven’t split off from that many parties.
Starts counting the amount of parties they have split from
PSL member: ummmm I ran out of fingers

[Flyingclam]

I like the Alliance party alot. Wish they had a chapter in NC but they are mainly in the west coast atm