Too damn bad....The system is the same for everyone....You don't lose the World Series 4-3 and complain that you should have won, because you scored more runs in your three wins than the other them did in their four wins.
That people buy into the bullshit arguments put forth by the duopoly, that a vote for anyone outside their fake "choice" is wasted, is the fault of the foolish sheep who fall for it.
The only system worth having, if there is to be one at all, is one that is in charge of so little that it makes no difference who wins any silly election.
"The system is the same for everyone"???
No, it clearly is not.
If you're in Wyoming or California or one of the 38 states in the US that doesn't get a say in who the president it is, it's not the same as those in the 12 states who do get a say. Also, if you're in Puerto Rico, DC or some other place like this they don't even get a vote. Clearly not the same for everyone.
Also, if you're a Republican or Democrat, you get to vote for the Republicans or Democrats. If you're not, you get to vote for.... the Republicans or Democrats.
Oh, that's fair, isn't it? Not.
In Germany you can go vote for your preferred choice of party and know if they make the 5% threshold, then you'll be represented in the Bundestag.
In the US, you could have 30% vote for one party and still get no seats.
In the German elections they have both the US FPTP system and PR. The CDU/CSU (main conservative party) got 77% of the seats with 37.2% of the vote. Are you telling me it's the same for everyone?
The FDP got 7% of the votes and no seats.
But because they have PR also, the CDU went from 77% of the seats to 246 seats out of 709, a FAIR result.
The World Series is a sport. Politics isn't a sport. Why should I be disenfranchised by the system? Why should there be only TWO POLITICAL PARTIES to represent 300 million people?
No, your analogy is wrong. It's like entering the world series and then being told that you can't play because the system says only one of two teams can win, and it isn't your team.
It's not that people buy into the whole "a vote for a third party is a wasted vote", it's that the system encourages this. Because the smaller parties have to get more votes than the larger party EVERY SINGLE TIME.
In Germany they don't. If you get 5% of the vote, you get represented. It's not a ******* game, a tournament. It's about BEING REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT.
DEMOCRACY, that's what we're talking. You seem to be talking about a game.