• Instantnudel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    I don’t have the feeling it’s just this server. The opinion I also always get on other Social Media is that everyone who votes for a 3rd Party in the USA is seen as an idiot by most people.

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      5 months ago

      It’s true, the average American voter holds (academically) fringe and heterodox views on America’s third party history. The conventional wisdom among historians and political scientists is the opposite:

      Let a third party once demonstrate that votes are to be made by adopting a certain demand, then one of the other parties can be trusted to absorb it. Ultimately, if the demand has merit, it will probably be translated into law or practice by the major party that has taken it up…The chronic supporter of third party tickets need not worry, therefore, when he is told, as he surely will be told, that he is “throwing away his vote.” [A] glance through American history would seem to indicate that his kind of vote is after all probably he most powerful vote that has ever been cast.

      • John D Hicks

      The impact of third parties on American politics extends far beyond their capacity to attract votes. Minor parties, historically, have been a source of important policy innovations. Women’s suffrage, the graduated income tax, and the direct election of senators, to name a few, were all issues that third parties espoused first.

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        5 months ago

        That’s all fine, except when the election is a razors edge from electing Trump. Then you have to put voting third party on a backburner for a later time and vote for the one option you have.

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          5 months ago

          I won’t be supporting the genocide, and anyone who does is subhuman.