I've never understood the idiotic mentality that thinks voting for someone who doesn't have a chance as "throwing your vote away".
So you sell your vote like a whore instead.
I vote for whoever has EARNED my vote. Because when you give someone your vote, you are telling them "You are doing something right". That is why I absolutely refuse to vote for a lesser of two evils, because I am not going to tell ANY evil it is doing something right.
If your vote won't count, you are throwing it away. We are a two-party system, pick one party.
And I know you don't understand, because you are an idiot...
Oh bullshit.
We have a one-party-dressing-up-as-two-parties system, and any resistance of that system, which is in effect racketeering -- is patriotic. Whoring off one's vote to whoever's got numbers big enough to keep a bigger asshole out, that's like trying to climb a mountain on a sheet of ice. You're going backward.
I agree, I vote for a principle, never a party or a number.
And yet another, throwing his vote away...
Look. If I vote for a Jon Huntsman or a Ralph Nader, knowing full well that conventional wisdom predicts they don't have a chance, what I'm going is refusing to fall in lockstep with the System's prescribed Tweedle Dum-Tweedle Dee bullshit, and saying so publicly. The fact that I express my own choice rather than cave in to what's presented with all the deeper meaning of a football game (and carrying the same rhetorical dynamics) doesn't mean I'm wrong --- it means that System is. The system depends on mob mentality throwing up its hands and going "duh, oh well, ah guess these are the only two choices ah have".
Well, no they ain't. And the sooner the mob stops thinking that way the sooner we get out of that morass.