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If they were candidates, they would completely divest themselves of all party affiliation, and run as candidates for President.
And instead of wasting their time trying to convince democrat and republican voters to change their votes or anything, they have to chase after the 120-150 million people that don't vote. Both are already popular amongst the disenfranchised, just ignore the republicans and democrats. They're outnumbered! Put that on the bumper sticker and there's a chance. Won't hurt to do Monty Python sketches on the impeachment theater and show pictures of the Chinese military build up either. (Whoops! There goes Korea)
A Bernie/Tulsi ticket is a perfectly acceptable compromise. We have a nice healthy VP for insurance, ready to take command when he kicks... The numbers are there if people take their own initiative to put them on the ballot, and just show up and vote. Nobody has to say anything to the press or anything.. Mum's the word until Voting Day. No ads are necessary. Instead of making speeches and begging for money, the candidates will answer questions when they travel around. If everybody takes their own initiative, the effort is completely trivial, and instantaneous, kinda, there are forms to fill out. But if everybody gets up off the Group W bench and sings just one time, in three part harmony... Ya gotta sing loud
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 06 2019, @09:57PM (2 children)
Yeah, except they'd be even more unlikely to win if they did that. You can talk all you want about how if everyone in the country voted for them it'd be a different matter, but that's the reality. Trying to take over one of the two major parties gives you far better chances of success than doing the third party/independent route. They're just taking the only practical option available to them. Wildly improbable 'what if' scenarios might be your thing, but they're useless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 07 2019, @10:09AM (1 child)
Just as Trump did with the Republicans.
And now look what a mess he's gotten them into.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @12:35AM
Has he? His policies are almost exactly that of a typical Republican's. Bush was even worse, what with Iraq, torture, and all. Maybe Trump will outdo Bush, but he hasn't done so quite yet.
And that's really the key: Policy. Bernie's policies would actually help ordinary people, which the corporatists of the Democratic party so often fail at (somehow not as badly as Republicans, but still).