until 2018 mexico only technically had a multi-party system in the same way that the united states also technically has a multi-party system with the green, psl, libertarians, independence, etc. parties; with only the two of the parties overwhelmingly dominating the rest of the parties like democrats and republicans do in the united states. the policies that i think you’re referring to were only put in place to give legitimacy to mexican elections and even then they only did it because the americans pushed them into doing it to alleviate criticisms of their support for the pri.
during his first campaign, obama espoused a progressive agenda like amlo did and both politicians proved how effected they were at getting young people to vote, which means that we already know how to get young people engaged. clinton did the same thing back in the 1990’s for the united states, so it also means we’re pretty good at getting young people to vote whenever we feel like pulling that lever; but we chose to appeal to “moderates” instead because they don’t challenge the status quo.
obama’s lower second election results proved what happens when you drop that progressive agenda and sheinbaum proves that the youth will reliably come out to support your party if you don’t drop that progressive agenda like obama did.
i think you’re right in that too many people are too comfortable in their living situations to ever effect change and i also agree that this sentiment is mostly shared by older generations; the same is true to a very large degree in mexico so that’s only part of the problem.
however, the change didn’t come from fixing the system from within one of the dominant parties; it happened when people ditched the “liberal” party that was co-opting progressive movement like the democrats do in the united states and voted 3rd party instead.
this overton ratcheting effect that the democrats enable coupled with their unwillingness to push back against republican voter suppression is the yin to the yin-and-yang of our political reality and that, along with the self fulfilling third party propaganda is the yang that keeps americans vacillating between democrat and republicans with things continuing to get worse for the world.
the american system’s inherent contradictions will be the only thing to degrade people’s material conditions enough to vote third party if we don’ t change our collective mindset and; by then; the world will be in a very sorry state that i’m glad i won’t get to live through.
Damn, I looked into it further, and you’re absolutely right. I knew it was an upset win, and when I saw that there were 4 major parties in the election, I dismissed it as a more variable political system, but it’s first-past-the-post, just like the US. This will definitely change my thought process on what our chances of making real current-day changes to our political landscape would be. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and for powering through my hardheadedness.
until 2018 mexico only technically had a multi-party system in the same way that the united states also technically has a multi-party system with the green, psl, libertarians, independence, etc. parties; with only the two of the parties overwhelmingly dominating the rest of the parties like democrats and republicans do in the united states. the policies that i think you’re referring to were only put in place to give legitimacy to mexican elections and even then they only did it because the americans pushed them into doing it to alleviate criticisms of their support for the pri.
during his first campaign, obama espoused a progressive agenda like amlo did and both politicians proved how effected they were at getting young people to vote, which means that we already know how to get young people engaged. clinton did the same thing back in the 1990’s for the united states, so it also means we’re pretty good at getting young people to vote whenever we feel like pulling that lever; but we chose to appeal to “moderates” instead because they don’t challenge the status quo.
obama’s lower second election results proved what happens when you drop that progressive agenda and sheinbaum proves that the youth will reliably come out to support your party if you don’t drop that progressive agenda like obama did.
i think you’re right in that too many people are too comfortable in their living situations to ever effect change and i also agree that this sentiment is mostly shared by older generations; the same is true to a very large degree in mexico so that’s only part of the problem.
however, the change didn’t come from fixing the system from within one of the dominant parties; it happened when people ditched the “liberal” party that was co-opting progressive movement like the democrats do in the united states and voted 3rd party instead.
this overton ratcheting effect that the democrats enable coupled with their unwillingness to push back against republican voter suppression is the yin to the yin-and-yang of our political reality and that, along with the self fulfilling third party propaganda is the yang that keeps americans vacillating between democrat and republicans with things continuing to get worse for the world.
the american system’s inherent contradictions will be the only thing to degrade people’s material conditions enough to vote third party if we don’ t change our collective mindset and; by then; the world will be in a very sorry state that i’m glad i won’t get to live through.
Damn, I looked into it further, and you’re absolutely right. I knew it was an upset win, and when I saw that there were 4 major parties in the election, I dismissed it as a more variable political system, but it’s first-past-the-post, just like the US. This will definitely change my thought process on what our chances of making real current-day changes to our political landscape would be. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and for powering through my hardheadedness.