frigidweirdo
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The reality is that voting 3rd party amounts to a protest vote .. which may be good for the conscience, but does nothing to solve problems today.
How many people will think like this? I think if they all got the cojones to vote third party, there might actually be some real positive change in the US for once.
What do you think a 3rd party could accomplish without other party members in Congress? That person would still have to work through democrats and republicans, would they not?
Voting 3rd party amounts to a protest vote, not much more .. and I'm a Green.
The whole point is to change the way people vote in order to have third parties in Congress to actually be able to do something. In many countries third parties actually do stuff because they ware in parliament.
I don't disagree with the intent .. but the reality is that we don't live in a country that has many relevant parties.
The intent is why I vote Green .. when I have the luxury to do so. This moment in time does not allow me such luxury.
The reality is that voting 3rd party amounts to a protest vote .. which may be good for the conscience, but does nothing to solve problems today.
This may be true for you but it is not true for everyone. Some people's understandings of the problems leads them to conclude that the candidates that represent the duopoly are part of the problems we face today.
And what issues will change? Seriously. What problems could such a person solve?
What could a 3rd party candidate do to affect change when that person must work through the same democrats and republicans that you abhor?
The answer is really simple. Go look at the German system.
In Germany they've not had a single party in power, I believe, since the NSDAP of Hitler.
In that time they've had coalitions of CDU/CSU and FPD, SPD and die Gruene, CDU/CSU and SPD.
What it means is that issues of smaller parties get taken into account much more, because deals have to be done. The main parties can't just do whatever the hell they like. It also offers much more accountability as these parties would just pull out of govt if they didn't like what was happening, and with more voices and more opinions on show, parties are far more likely to suffer attacks for their policies.
In the US attacks just seem to be part of the game, rather than decent politics.
Germany's politics is far more ordinary citizen friendly, they don't go rushing into stupid wars like Vietnam or Iraq, however they do their duty as NATO and UN members in places like Kosovo.
I really suggest you go look at the German system to see what could be.