No offense but from my perspective this is ridiculous logic. I think it comes from a misunderstanding of what voting is about.
Your singular vote is never likely to make a difference, but the fact that you decided to vote that way likely means other like-minded people will have also decided to vote that way.
It's completely logical for everyone to vote for the candidate that they most support, this is how voting should work. At least you should be able to admit that the voting process in the US is sh*t compared to many other countries? What amazes me is that it doesn't have to be, but because of your attitude to voting third party it continues to be.
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Im not offended because simply put you are wrong
You have written often about 'logic' and people viewing things from a 'logical' idealism mostly based around Librteriansim--which is completely illogical and impractical view point for governing since it is the absence of governing. You use the idea of 'hypocrisy' to form your opinions about almost every topic when it comes to Governing which makes it impossible to Govern since you have to be a hypocrite from someones perspective in order to actuallly 'do' anything so it becomes a policy of 'do nothing" or to obstruct things from happening if does not suit your ideal (a very Rand Paul political policy)
I will teach you something and you can look it up to make sure i am telling you the truth about the the 2016 election
We are a republic. We have an electoral system.
The election came down to Trump flipping what were always considered to be 'blue' states going back i think to 1980.
Trump flipped them "red'
When you look at the break down of the key states that won him the election--what were here call the "Rust Belt States' he won those states by a a very small margin--the margin was much smaller than the votes that went to both of the 3rd party candidates...so IF those people had voted for HRC--which most of them would have--He would have lost by a landslide..In each of these states it came down to about 10,000 votes per state (i had posted a break down of the states here at the time on another thread when iw as debating this with someone)
How the vote should be is irrelevant to how it actually is right now--again an other illogical stand point.
The country has been around for hundreds of years based on electoral process---do you not think that we have not in that time debated greatly getting ride of electoral process? we want to its written into our constitution so to do so it would have to be changed...and the states that are benefiting greatly from the electoral process
fight that so its impossible.
SO your woulds and should are impractical and illogical to these debates about really.
Should we ideally be more open to 3rd party candidates?
Of course we had Ross Perot get into the debates before in 90s its not impossible that it can happen again.
But i also think its nothing more then 'symbolism' when you are on the day.
Also keep in mind a thing the President does is pick supreme court judges--THIS is more important for most domestic issues then who is actually President for 4 years.
So you will be casting a mostly 'symbolic' vote to prove a point you are not a hypocrite or what you believe is logical that will set precedence and have consequences much larger and more effective to your daily life and life of your kids.
That does not sound rational or logical to me.
If a 3rd party has a chance? and the other 2 are really very close in policy generally speaking? yeah sure cast and support a 3rd party..but not to take into account the specifics of WHO is running and WHAt they want to do or not do who they want to nominate--the cases coming before the supreme court over next few years? That is like sticking head in sand to stand by an 'ideal' of how you 'think' things should be as opposed to the reality of how they actually are.
Yeah that's stupid, who is supporting anarchy? Anarchy never lasts long and nearly always leads to a more authoritarian government.
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Some people who supported Stein and Johnson and even some people who voted for Trump wanted to see things get worse and give a big 'f*** you' to Govt. They wanted things to implode---not all or even most but they are definitely out there disrupting sh*t and enjoying it.