part 2: because in the past hour I’ve thought of several ways in which my above post could easily be misunderstood.
I’m mostly referring to the presidential election. In that race, third parties effectively don’t exist. However, in congressional elections, third parties do sometimes get seats. Also, the closer to local you get the more your individual vote can impact the result so absolutely vore 3rd party if there’s a candidate that’s worth a damn in those contexts.
I would love for 3rd party candidates to be viable options. However, before that can happen, either the system needs to change, or the population needs to change. Ranked choice voting would be a major victory in moving the system in that direction, but we’d have to actually get there first. Order of operations matters. What do you want me to do? pretend that the system isn’t rigged seven different ways to favor the greater evil?
Things weren’t always this shitty, and a lot of people are in denial about how bad it actually is. Before trump and maga took over the country, I’d have been voting for 3rd party too of I was politically literate enough at the time to do so.
I understand why you want to vote 3rd party even though, no, especially because we live in such asinine times. Stick it to the man, fuck the republicans for being nazis, and fuck the democrats for completly failing to stop them. I agree with this sentiment. All of one side and most of the other deserves prison forever at best. But if you actually wanted to make a difference in the 2024 election, which I’ll take credit for naming The Last Election, then there was only one correct choice even though she sucked.
I’m using the hypothetical you, not aiming at anyone specific. It’s just easier to frame my arguments that way sometimes. Most people in this community are actually quite sensible from what I can tell.
I could keep going, but I think this is already longer than anyone is willing to read.
part 2: because in the past hour I’ve thought of several ways in which my above post could easily be misunderstood.
I’m mostly referring to the presidential election. In that race, third parties effectively don’t exist. However, in congressional elections, third parties do sometimes get seats. Also, the closer to local you get the more your individual vote can impact the result so absolutely vore 3rd party if there’s a candidate that’s worth a damn in those contexts.
I would love for 3rd party candidates to be viable options. However, before that can happen, either the system needs to change, or the population needs to change. Ranked choice voting would be a major victory in moving the system in that direction, but we’d have to actually get there first. Order of operations matters. What do you want me to do? pretend that the system isn’t rigged seven different ways to favor the greater evil?
Things weren’t always this shitty, and a lot of people are in denial about how bad it actually is. Before trump and maga took over the country, I’d have been voting for 3rd party too of I was politically literate enough at the time to do so.
I understand why you want to vote 3rd party even though, no, especially because we live in such asinine times. Stick it to the man, fuck the republicans for being nazis, and fuck the democrats for completly failing to stop them. I agree with this sentiment. All of one side and most of the other deserves prison forever at best. But if you actually wanted to make a difference in the 2024 election, which I’ll take credit for naming The Last Election, then there was only one correct choice even though she sucked.
I’m using the hypothetical you, not aiming at anyone specific. It’s just easier to frame my arguments that way sometimes. Most people in this community are actually quite sensible from what I can tell.
I could keep going, but I think this is already longer than anyone is willing to read.