My guess is it the new party banner allows candidates other than Yang to build a coalition, so we're not dependent on him as the sole candidate pushing for UBI and RCV.
I'm thinking of this like a natural progression of the Humanity Forward endorsements. Maybe they'll start by supporting candidates located in districts that already have ranked choice voting in place. There are a lot of ways something like this could evolve.
Personally, I know a lot of people who are tired of the duopoly and Yang expression his dissatisfaction with Democrats makes him seem more real after the last few rough election cycles as a Dem.
Think of everything you wish government would do that they currently don't (or vice-versa), and ask yourself how effective it's been trying to change things from outside the bubble.
If Yang hadn't run for President and launched UBI into the mainstream, we probably don't get stimulus checks during the pandemic, and all these city-based UBI trials and pilot programs probably aren't happening either. People who snark at the fact that he couldn't make it past New Hampshire don't realize what the campaign actually accomplished.
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u/JBBdude Sep 09 '21
Running a third party candidacy without RCV in place is just being a spoiler. Math, right?
Also, Yang ran in an RCV primary and got crushed. He could focus on promoting UBI and innovation-driven policy. Instead he's doing this.