re: Official Frick the 2 Party System Thread #FeelTheJohnson

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Donald Trump is the candidate that 3rd party pumpers have been waiting for and they can't get their head out of their arse to understand it.



not even close

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Maybe not in the real world, but this is the poliboard. Look at all the upvotes on that comment.

I would love for him to get to 5%. Not because I like him as much as I just want another voice in the debates and whatnot. I think a lot of us share Libertarian values and it would be great to get that thought out to the public.

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Not voting and voting 3rd party have similar effects on the current election. Voting 3rd party is something you do in hopes that it will get a 3rd party attention for next cycle.

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I don't even think he got on the ballot for VA

I didn't request an absentee in time.

All Votes Matter

He's on the ballot in all 50 states, he's projected right under 5% which is the threshold for federal funding

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Donald Trump is the candidate that 3rd party pumpers have been waiting for and they can't get their head out of their arse to understand it.

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This is a display of ignorance of the basic underlying mechanisms of our system of democracy. In our system, which is first past the post, single member district, winner take all (plurality system), there can ONLY be two viable parties. That is pre-determined by our method of voting. A third party can arise and replace one of the two existing parties, but there can't be three viable parties for more than a couple of cycles, tops, due to the first past the post, single member district, winner take all electoral system. People in this country get confused by looking at some European states or Japan and thinking we can have multiple parties like that if we just really want it bad enough, but that's not the case. It's structural. Those countries have proportional representation (PR) voting mechanisms.

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The system is the problem. Voting 3rd party is a vote against the system. If everyone keeps voting Republican or Democrat nothing will change and we will be stuck with shite candidates forever. But never mind actually trying to make a change. Just follow in line with the rest of the sheep and stay in favor of the shitty system we have.

It'll be all good