RFK Jr. makes California ballot by collaborating with political party with a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ+ past
Republicans?
Serious question, is there an American political party without one?
If you go back far enough, no. But the point is that as society has moved on, some political parties have realized that racism and misogyny are morally wrong and illogical. Republicans haven’t.
And the AIP was still trying to get rid of LGBTQ marriage rights in 2021.
A fair point. But the article is mainly about how they’ve held those views very recently, possibly to this day.
possibly to this day.
Um, definitely to this day, have people not been paying attention? They do everything they can to make life difficult for LGBTQ+ persons.
What have they done recently? Idk anything about them. I’m not from California, so I’d never heard of them
I checked their website and I’m not seeing anything about it. Did you want to share what you know?
The issues page for the American Independence Party is hilarious. This is, word for word, their entire party platform from their website: https://www.aipca.vote/issues
Independent California Voters Care About Real Issues
- EDUCATION
- IMMIGRATION
- PUBLIC SAFETY
- JOBS
- FAMILY
- HOUSING
It’s like this page was written by the Flight of the Concords. https://youtu.be/EmLHOGT0v4c
I say fine, if that’s what it takes to get on the ballot in this broken system. Getting on the ballot should be trivial. Crazy/stupid/evil should also have easy access. And everyone should have easy voting access to crush these loons.
He does have easy access. He just has to get signatures.
Indeed, just has to get signatures like any other candidate.
Democratic candidates have to get 26,000 signatures.
Republican? 52,863 signatures.
Independent? 219,403 signatures.
Yeah, seems completely fair and balanced.
Those numbers for the Democrats and Republicans are to be on their primary. Not the general election.
And independent has no primary, so those are the numbers to get on the relevant ballot.
Except the numbers for the Democrats and Republicans are their individual numbers since they are primaries. Run by the parties. They have no bearing whatsoever on the State numbers. The State numbers are the same for everybody. For a party to get registered it has to have a certain number of signatures just like an individual. That’s why he’s using that party, they’ve already done the groundwork he couldn’t do by himself. This isn’t that complicated.
Cool, down voted for being pro-democracy!
