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In America you either one of the 2 main or a spoiler. Y'all really need ranked voting.
Can't get ranked choice voting with either establishment party, and I don't consider the only major leftist candidate to be a spoiler for 2 right parties.
Hilarious. Let me think about who I'd vote for if I was US-American. The Fascist or the at least slightly socially progressive neoliberals? It's anyone's guess really. NO. Of course the Dems, fucking obviously.
So if I was US-American and also hit in the head enough to consider voting for third party in a country with a first-past-the-post voting system, I'd not vote for the Dems as a result.
This is called the spoiler effect. This makes her a spoiler candidate, no matter her intention.
I fucking hate this rhetoric.
Voting for a third party is not "taking a vote away" from anyone.
You're arguing with someone who would in all likelihood JUST NOT VOTE if not for an alternative option. If you want assurances that fascism doesn't get voted in, how about you direct that passion towards getting people to vote for someone, anyone, instead of staying at home? That is the only certain way of getting not-the-GOP-candidate elected time and time again. Republicans always come out to vote in about the same numbers every election. Just get more people voting, and not only do the Dem numbers go up, but the viability of a third party goes up astronomically as well.
Just VOTE. For anyone!
Hate it all you want, it's objective reality.
You can hate it all you want. It isn't rhetoric. It's basically math. Every registered vote that votes 3rd party is a wasted vote. There isn't enough support in the US for any 3rd party thanks to the First Past The Post electoral system.
Since it's so basic, then surely we can stop giving candidates the benefit of the doubt when they refuse to support its reform.
Just because the big silly in this conversation is a big silly, doesn't mean all the sillies are. There's lots of sillies who are silly enough to vote third party but not silly enough to abstain.