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That's where youre wrong. There are more than 2 parties. The 2 party system is atrocious.
There are only two parties that have a mathematical chance of winning. You can throw your vote away on a third party, hoping to get them 20x their highest ever turn-out in the hopes that they get more money if you want. But know that what you are actually doing is indistinguishable from simply not voting. Work on getting ranked-choice voting in your state first, then vote your conscience. Voting third party now just guarantees another 4+ years of Trump.
Gaslighting people into thinking there are only 2 viable options is the reason why we're in this mess. Just saying.
Are you saying any third party has a mathematical chance of winning? It's not gaslighting when it's the truth.
It's literally a mathematical certainty. Every single Democrat would have to vote against Joe Biden for a third party, or else the vote would be split, and we'd guarantee a Trump win.
I don't know, I'm sure there's plenty of people on the right that don't like either candidate, and would probably vote for 3rd party if people would stop this nonsense that there are only 2 parties.
Any third-party run that pulls from both parties is gonna end up being an "enlightened centrist" group like No Labels and we'll get more of the exact same.
The majority of people do not hold extreme left or extreme right views. While the majority of democratic and republican candidatesaree trying to match up to the extremes of their parties, and you get the same results and nothing done. Why not have common sense take a shot at running things?