In our first past the post (FPTP) electoral system, it’s inevitable that political choice gets narrowed down to two major parties with barely a measurable fraction of votes going toward various third parties. The answer isn’t to try to buck the system and vote for a third party candidate anyway. The answer is to vote in primaries of the major parties for candidates willing to change our election laws so third parties can thrive. Until that happens, expect to hear that a vote for a third party is a vote for the candidate you least like.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, that boogeyman doesn’t work anymore. Material conditions in my hood didn’t change during Trump or Biden’s administrations; carceral slavery is still the law of the land, while union protections, protections for the climate, and protections for my community still got slashed under a democrat administration, even though he swears he tried his best just like the Drone King did. tl;dr, I’d rather your country fall than pencilwhip another one of your death cult-serving settlers.