{"id":850066,"date":"2021-10-05T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=850066"},"modified":"2021-10-05T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T22:58:34","slug":"andrew-yang-announces-new-political-party-after-splitting-from-democrats-heres-what-its-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-yang-announces-new-political-party-after-splitting-from-democrats-heres-what-its-called\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Yang Announces New Political Party After Splitting From Democrats \u2014 Here\u2019s What It\u2019s Called"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fandrew-yang-announces-new-political-party-after-splitting-from-democrats-heres-what-its-called%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=850066&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Yang\u2019s has dubbed his new political identity as the Forward Party, displaying the slogan \u201cNot left. Not right. Forward.\u201d Yang released a five-minute video explaining the party\u2019s beliefs and priorities on Twitter, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardparty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launching a website<\/a> for the party. Yang has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/10\/andrew-yang-new-york-presidential-mayoral-campaign-mark-cuban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yet to succeed<\/a> in reaching elected office, first failing to obtain the Democratic 2020 nomination, and then failing again in his run for New York City mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now we have this two-sided duopoly that\u2019s 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,\u201d Yang said in the video announcement, adding that political polarization in the U.S. is dividing families. \u201cWe\u2019re 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.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/19\/andrew-yang-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democratic Candidate Andrew Yang Promises Government Crackdown On \u2018Misinformation\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.6178010471204\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to the Forward Party. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pHP4oLw6w4\">https:\/\/t.co\/pHP4oLw6w4<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fwd_Party?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Fwd_Party<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/forward?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#forward<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/forwardist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#forwardist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k385M45hdN\">pic.twitter.com\/k385M45hdN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Yang\ud83e\udde2\u2b06\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@AndrewYang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1445501156902334480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yang identifies the party\u2019s chief objectives as implementing open primaries and ranked-choice voting; adopting universal basic income; cultivating a \u201chuman-centered\u201d economy; ensuring a fact-based and modernized government, as well as treating fellow Americans with \u201cgrace and tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re in the midst of right now is one of the worst nightmares of our founding fathers,\u201d Yang says. \u201cThey hated political parties. There\u2019s nothing in the Constitution about any political party, and the duopoly would have been their worst nightmare come to life, because what they would\u2019ve seen is factions that just clash over and over again and are susceptible to bad leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Forward Party website also calls for imposing a term limit of 18 years for all members of Congress, in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and ensuring that a person\u2019s digital data is protected as a property right to increase privacy from tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Twitter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/04\/andrew-yang-democrat-independent-third-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Andrew Yang \u2018Breaking Up\u2019 With Democrats)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yang raised eyebrows during his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic primary with his calls for universal basic income and his criticism of the two-party system. He has made a name for himself by proposing numerous radical changes to the American system, most recently calling for Americans to be able to vote in elections from their phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.Yang\u2019s has dubbed his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}