EU: Should the UK Leave or Stay?

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Yeah, I don't know who is best to run the country either. I think the Tories are still ultimately interested in keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. I think it's about time someone else got a shot.

I'm personally behind a lot of the policies of the Green Party, which is why is vote for them to raise their profile and those policies. Even if they don't have a chance of winning yet, and some of their policies need "refinement" shall we say, I want those matters to become part of people's considerations. I want other parties to take those issues seriously.

Animal policies are particularly important to me, and tories are the worst for this, followed by UKIP. Green are obviously the best here, but I found labour to be surprisingly progressive this time around. Lib dem were fairly good, but not as good as labour.

This is very admirable. At least in the UK there is a higher chance of getting "weak" parties recognition. In the US it's a virtual non-starter. I've worked on a couple, failed, campaigns here in the US to get the Greens to have enough representation in the state house to qualify for federal funding and debate media. We lost every time.

It's a major uphill battle. But I think it's one worth stressing. Here in the US we have the irony of an independent signing into the party system to get the megaphone then disparaging the same party without bring up any alternatives. Our system is so polarized into two camps that even a no party candidate is playing party politics.

I honestly have no solutions. I'm not sure what it would take to get minority parties larger voices other then votes. It's always strange to me that Jewish people have on of the most successful lobbies in the US and Atheists have next to zero lobby influence but make up more of the population. Politics is nuanced, and money, but more then that I think it's general trends in public opinion. And the trends, at least here in the US, aren't ready for more then 2 parties (it's like our sports, how can more then 2 compete?) And we sure as shit aren't ready for nuance.