“What we’re in the midst of right now is one of the worst nightmares of our founding fathers,” Yang says.
Yang identifies the party’s chief objectives as implementing open primaries and ranked-choice voting adopting universal basic income cultivating a “human-centered” economy ensuring a fact-based and modernized government, as well as treating fellow Americans with “grace and tolerance.” “We’re getting more and more polarized in large part because the incentives of our political system, our media and our social media all are driving us against each other.” (RELATED: Democratic Candidate Andrew Yang Promises Government Crackdown On ‘Misinformation’) “Right now we have this two-sided duopoly that’s just clashing and clashing, and you may love one side more than the other, but you have to face facts that this system is not working,” Yang said in the video announcement, adding that political polarization in the U.S. Yang has yet to succeed in reaching elected office, first failing to obtain the Democratic 2020 nomination, and then failing again in his run for New York City mayor. Forward.” Yang released a five-minute video explaining the party’s beliefs and priorities on Twitter, as well as launching a website for the party. Yang’s has dubbed his new political identity as the Forward Party, displaying the slogan “Not left. Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced the creation of a new political party Tuesday, less than a month after announcing his departure from the Democratic Party.