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If you are going to throw away a vote why even bother going to the polls? Just stay home and make some popcorn and watch a show or something. 3rd party can’t win on a federal level at this point so it’s wasted time and effort from just staying home.
The only thing wasted is the belief that we should just lie down and accept the two-party stranglehold choking out every hope for real change!
Staying home only lets the elites keep their power unchallenged, while throwing a vote for a third party sends a message that we won’t be puppets for their corrupt, corporate machine.
Every so-called “wasted” vote is another strike against their monopoly on power, and the true waste would be surrendering our voices without a fight!
I’m not voting for Jill Stein, but I am proudly voting Socialist Workers Party.
The only thing that’s wasted is engagement when it comes to you. All you can do is argue strawmen. And keep banging the drum on your long debunked duopoly talking point.
Every so called wasted vote, is mathematically and statistically wasted. Skewing the election more in favor of the fascists at a national level. All while their concerns are still ignored. As they been for the last 2.5 centuries.
And keep banging the drum on your long debunked duopoly talking point.
Not debunked. It’s just that YOU don’t like it.
Guess what? I’m not the only one voting third party and denying the Duopoly a vote, comrade.
I support your rights to your opinion. I just don’t share that opinion. :)
I don’t like the Electoral College and first pass the post voting you’re right. But it is debunked. There is no duopoly. Mathematically because of first past the post voting and electoral College I’ll be there again no chance of third parties having a positive impact on a national election like the presidency. And you can’t prove otherwise. That’s all that matters.
You’re definitely entitled to your opinions. But I’m happily voting for third party this election.
They do say ignorance is bliss. So I believe you.
Ignorance is bliss—for the duopoly! They’re counting on people like you to stay blind and complacent while they keep rigging the game. But when we wake up and refuse to play along, their little paradise of control comes crashing down.
Enjoy your bliss while it lasts—it’s exactly what keeps them in power!
Do not waste your vote
I’m not wasting my vote. But I’m not voting for Jill Stein either. I’m voting for Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party :)
Wait, you wrote that whole diatribe and didn’t even convince yourself to vote for Jill Stein? Why did you mention her so many times and specifically end it with the sentence, “Vote Jill Stein”? Why not “Vote 3rd Party”? Of course it’d be most accurate to change it to “Vote Trump,” because that’s what your doing if you vote 3rd Party.
Every vote for Harris is stealing a vote from third-party candidates who represent real change. By sidelining those voices, you’re indirectly helping Trump win!
If you really want to avoid a Trump win, supporting a viable alternative outside the two-party system is the only way to push the conversation forward.
The “diatribe” wasn’t mine—it was from the article. Just because I share something doesn’t mean I completely agree with everything in it.
I found it interesting because it came from a socialist website, yet they were backing Jill Stein instead of a true socialist candidate.
At the end of the day, I believe people should educate themselves and vote for whoever aligns with their beliefs, regardless of party affiliation.
From the article: The US government is spending billions of American tax dollars to fund the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza—at least $10 billion since the conflict began. Medical journal The Lancet estimates that the actual death toll in Gaza could be as many as 186,000 people, or higher. Both Harris and Trump are equally committed to continuing this mass slaughter, and millions of working and young people feel disgusted at being forced to choose between them.
That disgust is completely justified. Those billions of dollars going toward decimating entire bloodlines in Gaza should instead be feeding the 24 million households in the US who in 2022 reported that they didn’t have enough to eat. In their recent debate, Harris and Trump fell all over themselves trying to say they loved fracking the most, which is an utter crisis for the climate. Billionaires and corporations are backing both candidates, and they’ll be the real winners in November, not working people.
The Democrats are throwing LGBTQ rights in our faces to try and win our votes, while they’ve been in office during an enormous rollback of LGBTQ rights across the country that they’ve been ineffective at stopping.
We don’t have to vote for the lesser evil anymore—we don’t have to vote for imperialist, capitalist evil at all. Voting for the lesser evil hasn’t stopped Trump’s far-right politics from gaining support, in fact, the Democrats failing to do anything to meaningfully improve working peoples’ lives has made the right wing stronger and stronger.
Working and young people who want something better than these two options should vote for an independent, left anti-war candidate: Jill Stein. Stein is calling for universal healthcare, a $25 minimum wage, universal rent control, banning fracking, and ending existing wars. She even got arrested alongside anti-war protestors during the campus encampments last spring.
Recent polls show Stein ahead of Harris among Muslim voters in several battleground states, including Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. More than half of Americans (61 percent) oppose the US sending weapons to Israel. If even a small fraction of those people registered a protest vote for Stein, it would send a crucial message that we won’t settle for the status quo any longer.
Every vote for Trump and Harris is a vote for endless war and corporate politics-as-usual. Every protest vote for independent left candidates is a vote pointing towards building a new working class party that doesn’t take a dime from billionaires and corporations, fights unapologetically for working people, and consistently stands with unions and social movements to win real change.
Voting on its own won’t be enough—there’s a lot more we need to do. But voting for an independent, anti-war candidate is a crucial first step. Vote Jill Stein.
