(August 13, 2016 at 7:42 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote:(August 13, 2016 at 7:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: You cannot sit there and complain about monopolies then do nothing. Say nothing get nothing.
I agree, but that's what I feel people are doing by voting for Hillary. This "lesser of two evils" mentality is trite and asinine, I'd rather not use cliches but in this case there's nothing for it, it's literally people trying the same shit they've tried for years and expecting a different result. I think to vote for Hillary, whose record is shady whatever way you cut it up, just because you're scared of Trump is really worrying.
Instead, people could be coming together and voting for third parties, just to at least try something different.
I definitely agree with you to a point. I would absolutely love third parties to be a choice because the two-party system keeps failing us more every time.
I have something keeping me from falling in step with you though. I hate to fall back on the "you're throwing your vote away" argument there, but that is also true to some level by going with the third party vote. If both major candidates were entirely equal in how bad they were, I wouldn't care about wasting my vote to make the third party look better. I've done that before, but this year is different. Trump as president is going to make my personal life a living nightmare and I don't want to beat myself up later on for not trying to stop that. I'm no fan of Hillary, but the worst I see with her is that we will tread water and go nowhere at all for the next four years. I'd prefer a waste of space president over a terror.
