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Nothing wrong with voting 3rd party. Blame the people who don't vote/vote for the side you don't like.
I can see how people might see voting 3rd party as functionally equivalent to not voting when it comes to one-round FPTP systems, though. It's better from a deontological standpoint, yes. But consequence-wise it's more/less the same result as not voting, if I understood it correctly.
We've seen exactly what happens when you do that, dumbfuck.
How many more people have to die?
Say the same to yourself bud. How many more people need to die before you realize the system is the problem, not the people voting. Because it seems y'all only care when it's Americans that die.
Normally i wouldnt mind this and would agree with you. But not on the only candidate we've ever had that has begged to be made king and actively tried to violently over throw the system
The closest a 3rd party candidate ever got was Teddy Roosevelt, Bull Moose Party in 1912, 27% of the vote, lost to Wilson, 42%. Voting for third party ensures your vote won't count for spit, but something tells me you're a Republican and that's the whole point of your op post.
https://www.pbs.org/thinktank/thirdchoice/timeline.html
That is what makes them a "third party," isn't it? When a third party starts doing well enough to win elections, they just stop being called a third party. And that has happened, or we'd be choosing between the Whigs and the Democratic-Republicans.
That's never going to happen in a first past the post system.
username checks out :D
The Republicans are a third party.
If 10% of the vote goes to x then there's motivation to court voters from x.
If you only vote 2 parties then you're only courting voters from the other party.