Re:Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
by mikeash on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:58PM
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In what way is it not? I'm a firm believer that the two-party system sucks and we need electoral reform to make third parties viable, and every time I vote I wish it were already so... but there's no escaping the reality that the system, as it is built today, makes third-party votes as useful as drawing a spaceship on your ballot.
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Re:Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
by colejohnson66 on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:59PM
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BECAUSE people believe that. If everyone who wanted to vote third party actually voted third party, they’d actually stand a chance.
Re:Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
by mikeash on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:58AM
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Because the nature of the system makes it unstable with more than two viable parties. It is possible for a third party to attain a critical mass and become viable, but it would displace one of the current major parties and we'd be back to a two-party system.