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3rd party 2024 and end the 2 party illusion of choice
The illusion is that a 3rd party has a chance. It didn’t when I voted for Anderson instead of Carter, and then Reagan got in. Never made that mistake again.
2016 was my first presidential election and I voted for Gary Johnson. Unless 3rd parties become a viable option, never again.
Abolish FPTP and the Electoral College.
Biden sux. Voting 3rd party = vote for Trump.
Don't!
Give me a real candidate instead of an old-ass-white-man and you've got the vote. Otherwise it goes 3rd party (same as virtually every zoomer watching Zionism destroy the middle east)
That's not going to happen this year. Voting 3rd is the same as voting Trump.
You cannot say otherwise.
Give me a real candidate, otherwise best of luck.
You have the power to prevent the 3rd party disaster by picking somebody other than Biden. Best of luck.
Really unfortunate that the entire zoomer voting base feels the exact same way.
If "anybody" can beat Trump, why not pick a candidate w/ a pulse/conscious?
Brilliant way to recruit mate! Please tell me how that works out for you come election season.
Enjoy your fascist-hellscape for the remainder of your very short lives on this planet. USA has fucked around, and is very close to finding out.
You know, as jaded as I am, it still saddens me to see gen z being just as jaded. I'm going to try a different tack, though I probably won't change your mind.
Biden is a dusty old milquetoast imperialist fucktwat. No arguments on that front. However, due to the way our electoral system works, 3rd parties cannot currently be viable at a national level because you and I will never, ever be able to convince 50%+ of the population to vote outside the D/R binary. It is an unfortunate reality that every vote not explicitly for Biden is a vote that will help Trump in the end.
What needs to happen, realistically, is that we defeat Trump, buy ourselves 4 more years of slow decline rather than complete collapse, and work at a local level to grow support for some form of ranked voting before 2028. Now, granted, that's been the goal of most pacifist leftists for years now and it hasn't happened. However, keep in mind that even if Trump is voted in and we see a fascist collapse, revolution probably just... won't happen. Not in America. Not in our lifetimes. Not in enough force to change anything. And if revolution doesn't happen and you're now living in a full-on fascist hellscape, how will you get out? Do you have a plan? Is it feasible? Even if it's feasible now, will it remain so in two years?
I dunno. I have very little hope at this point, and maybe the "burn it down" zoomers are right. Maybe you all and gen alpha have enough energy to overcome the lethargic despair and bitterness that has suffused us older folks. All I know is that I'm too fucking tired to revolt after the train crash, so I'll try my best to stop the train instead and work to build new tracks going the other direction. It'd be nice to have a little help but... Honestly I don't blame you if you just want to see it crash at this point.
Wow, writing that all out just made me even more depressed 🥲
https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/
3rd party has as much chance this election as any other in the past. Consider that when casting you’re vote and pick one of the two parties.
"and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote"
Republicans control more state delegations. Republicans win if no person reaches a majority of electoral votes.
You should tell the dems to pick somebody under 100 years old
Their are two younger candidates on the primary ballot. People can vote against Biden in the primary.
If Dems "pick" Biden again in the same way they "didn't" pick Bernie?
3rd party it is.
If Trump is even an option on my ballot?
3rd party it is.