The main reason is the following -
A third party option takes away that consent from the ruling class and gives power to working class people. That’s what they fear, that working class people actually develop some sort of consciousness that is class consciousness, that is this solidarity, not only across this country with other working class people, but across the globe, that we’re not okay, that we’re not complicit with continuous war, that we’re not complicit with the continuous destruction of the planet.
And it actually creates even more of a threat for them to have a party, such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that is explicitly running a socialist campaign, because it says in addition to going to the ballot box, you can hit the streets. You could organize your communities. You could find mechanisms to become politically active that go beyond the election cycle.
You could build a movement, and that is threatening to this country. What we’re trying to do here is threatening to them, because it means mass consciousness, mass mobilization, and the mass hope of taking power and the will of the people to do so.
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