RE: Americans, Do Not Vote
October 28, 2012 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 2:50 pm by Ryantology.)
That sounds great in theory. But, until you can convince many millions of people to do it, voting for a third party is practically the same thing as not voting at all.
We have a system in which we must choose the lesser of the two evils and we have to accept that; it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Nothing in our lifetime is going to change that. America went through a catastrophic civil war, which was a division of party politics almost as much as it was of geography, and even that didn't fix the system. Counting on a spontaneous and thorough overhaul of pretty much the entirety of American politics is not something I would bet on. I'll vote for the party which is closer to representing my interests because there is no hope for any party which claims to encapsulate all, or even most, of them.
The way I look at it, voting for a third party is not voting for the common interest because such a vote has zero practical value in this country. I hate that, I really do, but that is political reality and I accept it because I am in no position to change it by myself and I am not the kind who could sway the minds of tens of millions to my point of view.
Besides, the last time we had a chance for a legitimate third party, we got the Tea Party, and while it is usually in bad taste to compare people you dislike to the Nazis, the best I can say about the Tea Party is that they aren't quite as psychotic. And they would sooner invite gay black muslims over for dinner than adopt the term 'socialism' in their title.
We have a system in which we must choose the lesser of the two evils and we have to accept that; it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Nothing in our lifetime is going to change that. America went through a catastrophic civil war, which was a division of party politics almost as much as it was of geography, and even that didn't fix the system. Counting on a spontaneous and thorough overhaul of pretty much the entirety of American politics is not something I would bet on. I'll vote for the party which is closer to representing my interests because there is no hope for any party which claims to encapsulate all, or even most, of them.
The way I look at it, voting for a third party is not voting for the common interest because such a vote has zero practical value in this country. I hate that, I really do, but that is political reality and I accept it because I am in no position to change it by myself and I am not the kind who could sway the minds of tens of millions to my point of view.
Besides, the last time we had a chance for a legitimate third party, we got the Tea Party, and while it is usually in bad taste to compare people you dislike to the Nazis, the best I can say about the Tea Party is that they aren't quite as psychotic. And they would sooner invite gay black muslims over for dinner than adopt the term 'socialism' in their title.
