Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

We are playing a rigged game. The angrier you get the more hopeless it becomes. The only answer is to unrig the game. They will tell you it can’t be done. Of course it can - what is stopping us? A popular movement must rise up and stop getting played against each other for fools. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

The country has been gerrymandered such that 90% of districts are now uncompetitive in the general election and 94% of reps get re-elected even though Congress has a national approval rate of 20%. They have effectively neutered any popular feedback. Again, anti-competition. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Each side spent $7 billion over the last cycle against the other, overriding any sense of commonality and driving us to hate and fear each other. The media and social media companies absorbed a good deal of that money and enjoy separating us into camps. Where does it lead or end? — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

But the parties do have a number of things in common: they are overrun by special interests. They detest true openness or accountability or competition. They gerrymander. They are largely financial operations with a political operation on the side. When they fail they fundraise. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

People will say “the two parties are different!” Of course they are. But in this system no one will win - we will only grow more inflamed and frustrated as our quality of life declines. The numbers make it nearly impossible for either side to achieve a lasting governing majority. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

I was a Democrat for 25+ years. I left the party when I realized that the two-party system was breaking down and needed replacement - and if left unchecked would lead us to dysfunction, disintegration and/or Civil War. I sense that others are coming to the same realization. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

“No one likes excuses.” - Me to my 6-year old. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Democrats in Nevada are against this because at the end of the day each party despises both competition and accountability. They just want to coast in and keep their seats and control. That why you need a third party. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

This change would also allow new parties and candidates a more genuine chance to compete which would open it up to new ideas and real accountability. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

RT @LarrySharpe: Even The Daily News realizes it’s a problem. NY is broken. We need Open Primaries. Did you know over 3.5 million NYers can… — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Imagine if this were true of 10 - 20 more Senators who could then represent what most voters want rather than their party line. Could that make the difference between democracy living or dying? Yes. It’s the best real path forward. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the only Republican Senator who is up for re-election this year who voted to impeach Trump. She is also pro-choice. She probably wouldn’t get through a Republican primary but in Alaska she can take her case straight to the general public. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

There are 25 states where we can switch to non-partisan open primaries and ranked choice voting via ballot initiative. Alaska made the change in ‘20. Nevada may follow this year. This is how we free ourselves to have our leaders answer to us rather than the extremes and insiders. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

The two-party system is reaching its end. The question is what comes next. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

This is terrible. 🙏 — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Does this kind of polarizing bullshit make the case for a third party? Yes it does. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

None of this would be possible or necessary if we did away with closed party primaries and replaced them with non-partisan open primaries and ranked choice voting. Stop the consultant-led two-party nonsense. It’s on the ballot in Nevada this year. Let the people actually vote. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

They did this in Pennsylvania in the Governor’s race. I don’t know where PA goes this year. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Think about it: Imagine weighing “my chances of winning” vs. “quality of leadership this community gets” and coming out with “my chances of winning are more important than the chance that we elect someone extreme and out-of-step because we spent millions helping them.” — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

If one of the more extreme candidates wins Democrats will then ask “How did this happen?” when anyone could have told them that they were playing with fire. The losers will be the public. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Tuesday’s races feature four races in which Democratic candidates or groups are seeking to influence Republican primary voters, including a more-than-$30-million effort in the Illinois governor’s race. https://t.co/GEb8hhsz8P — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Dems are spending millions boosting more extreme and ‘beatable’ candidates in Republican primaries around the country. How much do you want to bet this backfires in some cases? They thought the same thing about Trump. It’s the perversion of the two-party system in action. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

RT @oliviadaniel: ...Part deux. #RankedChoiceVoting #NonPartisanPrimaries https://t.co/LlZnCzaBPX https://t.co/JpDb8gXWjE — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

On Roe, why did the Democrats try only to pass a messaging bill that went further than Roe that they knew would get rejected by Collins/Murkowski/Manchin? One possible explanation is that they’d prefer their people inflamed for the midterms at the expense of women in red states. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Here’s an example from California where they have a supermajority and the Governor ran on single payer healthcare. So of course they . . . didn’t vote on it. https://t.co/EsvgTU7o1f — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Okay here’s the story. Democrats say: vote us in and we will do xyz what you want! But there are a bunch of structural reasons why - no they won’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

RT @danileis: Democrats, we call your bluff! Voting blue is not enough! https://t.co/KIdRRpaIcN — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

RT @JeffMightBWrong: @AndrewYang surprised me by asking if I could think of a comedian who I thought should run for office, and I was even… — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

RT @StevenOlikara: 🚨 Join @AndrewYang and me for a special online event this Tuesday at 3pm CT/4pm ET! We’ll be making an exciting announce… — PolitiTweet.org

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Great work in Nevada for non-partisan open primaries and ranked choice voting! 👍🚀 — PolitiTweet.org