- You are not going to vote your way out of this
- There is no just or reasonable way to govern a transcontinental slave empire
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This doesn't quite apply to me, since I live somewhere with RCV and gladly use it. But:
A third party that doesn't waste my time by only running top-line candidates while ignoring every other aspect of the necessary political gains to achieve their goals. Especially when the planks of their platform are overwhelmingly in the hands of the house and senate and not in the purview of the one position for which they decided to lackadaisically run. A third party presidential win with no support in the legislature would doom any real progress that third parties could hope to achieve - giving us a figurehead with no means to enact their agenda would only dissuade voters from seeing future candidates as viable and locking us back into the same dichotomy.
The viability and practicality of third party presidential candidates isn't relevant to the question. If the Democratic party doesn't change and keeps losing, what good does it do for Democratic progressives to keep compromising for it when third party candidates with better platforms are available?
what would it take for you to vote third party?
^ that was your question, and telling me my reasoning behind the answer I gave isn't relevant to what it would take me to vote third party is farcical and asinine, and that's being generous
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this is an interesting discussion that's gone on for long enough and been substantive enough that i'll leave it be, but as an FYI this was a better fit for the Politics section and had it been caught sooner i would have told you to repost it there.
Lemmy, 1 week ago: "A THIRD PARTY VOTE IS A REPUBLICAN VOTE!"
Lemmy, today: "WE SHOULD ALL BE VOTING THIRD PARTY!"
The responses I've been getting so far don't seem very warm to third party voting at all.
It's not the Democratic Party is going to learn anything from this. Might as well set that bitch on fire and try to get something else going.
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I would consider voting for a 3rd party that abandons twitter and back ups their claims with credible sources.
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