Serious question. I'm vaguely familiar with him as a political commentator on the left, but the more I see of the guy, the more I think he's just a liberal.
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Oh they literally take other parties to court for trying to participate in democracy?
Yes. They spend a lot of resources trying to keep any other alternatives from being on the ballot.
To be on the ballot, you need to collect signatures. Let's say for example for local office you need 10k signatures. The rule of thumb is that you will need to collect 20k valid signatures, so you have enough margin for when the Democrats (let's assume it's a city where you are running) challenge all your signatures and get a lot of them tossed out for ticky-tack bullshit (wrong precinct, signature doesn't match even though it is the actual voter, accidentally wrote in wrong zip code, etc etc)