(November 17, 2016 at 11:58 am)Opoponax Wrote: Voting third party in a POTUS race is the same as voting for the person you like the least.
When I got my ballot this time around, you know how many third party candidates there were other than Johnson and Stein for President?
None. Not a single one in a state or local race. And now the third parties are going to take their three year vacation from the face of the earth until they self-righteously return to siphon off votes from whomever it is that's running against Herr Drumpf.
A vote for President is also a vote for the makeup of the Supreme Court, which can mean a vote that lasts for decades. So it doesn't matter if you don't like the candidate, you can look at their basic ideals and see how law of the land lawmaking is going to go because of their time in office. Now Trump is going to pick at least one, and maybe as many as three SCOTUS justices. And look who he's surrounded himself with.
That's what third party voting helped accomplish this election.
Oh, yeah, it's totally the fault of the people that didn't like either candidate. These people and their thinking that they shouldn't be forced election after election to choose between a douche and a turd sandwich. They should just shut up and pick an asshole. It's the American way, after all.
It had nothing to do with Hillary being a lying corporate shill. It had nothing to do with her being an establishment politician in the pocket of Wall St. It had nothing to do with her inability to connect to rural voters. It had nothing to do with Hillary giving Wasserman-Schulz a job after she got caught trying to rig the primary. It had nothing to do with her poor handling of classified information.
You can go ahead and keep blaming third party voters. But you may as well just extend Trump's lease on the White House for four more years.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell