Originally Posted by
Dutch Uncle
Yet you keep voting for them. That's the problem.
I stopped voting for the Republican Party when it became crystal clear they were no longer the party of fiscal responsibility and personal accountability by openly embracing racism, fiscal irresponsibility and shredding the Constitution...just like Democrats.
If more Americans voted for a Third Party then that party would replace one or both of the two major parties as has happened several times in our past. Instead, We, the People, have largely become a nation of divided chickenshits who keep supporting the same party they hate.
First of all, "third party" by itself means nothing. You have to identify its location on the political spectrum.
Those dissatisfied with the present two parties definitely don't agree on one third party political location.
Then, even if a non-major party candidate won the presidency, he/she would have no support from either side of the still Republican / Democratic Aisle.
Finally, if we had viable alternate parties to suit both libertarian/anarchists like yourself and European- style Social Democrats like me, presidential elections would become worthless.
Every election would be decided in the House, which could be ok but we don't know. The point is, people forget that part of it.
Right now, voting for a non-viable candidate just with the hope of screwing up the real choice one way of another is being both petulant and unpatriotic.
Responsible people don't respect that.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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