"Voting for a third party accomplishes one thing. It takes votes away from one of the other major-party candidates. Given that the status quo favors the Republican candidate – think the Electoral College – voting for a third party is probably going to take votes away from Joe Biden. Whatever you think of him, he’s better than the alternative. (The alternative, by the way, likes making jokes about being a dictator.)
Actually, it accomplishes another thing. It enriches presidential candidates for third parties that do not work in cooperation with one of the major parties. (It’s called “fusion voting.”) For instance, the Green Party — these people know they can’t win. They know the status quo prevents them from winning. They don’t say that, though. In the space between what they know and what their supporters don’t know is a scam. In the absence of systemic change, third parties that don’t cooperate with one of the major parties are inherently exploitative."
I’m not sure they should win. Watching the electoral dysfunction in Germany and Israel is a hard reminder of the bizzare contortions that party coalitions create.
I just wish the under 35 crowd voted in primaries at rates comparable to the elderly, then maybe we’d see policies that actually helped instead of being the lesser of two evils.
If you keep rewarding bad behavior, you’re going to continue to get evil.
That’s why we have to vote in primaries for non-evil.
But we get outvoted, badly, by senior citizens so old time politics reigns supreme.
This whole purpose of primaries is to keep that evil in power
That’s an… interesting opinion.