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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 44 points 1 week ago

No.

Look at how the system actually works. There are two choices. Both candidates have to compete for all the people who vote. If you sit out the election that doesn't mean either candidate will try to get your vote; they'll ignore you and go after the people who do vote.

Someone else came up with this analogy. It's like the trolley problem except the there's a third option. The third choice is to throw the switch to "Neither," but "Neither" isn't connected and the trolley kills someone anyway.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago

Or as Rush put it, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

My friend, what you wrote totally ignores the passage of time. Everything you wrote is true if we only look at one election, and none of it is true if we consider the passage of time and how pressure operates. If the political party is not getting votes, if all of their candidates are losing, either they will disband or they will find different policies to push.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Actually I paid attention to history. The pendulum swung the other way a few years back; arch Conservative Ronald Reagan courted the Left by picking the first woman on the Supreme Court and making Colin Powell his Number One guy.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

George Carlin did a great job blowing this nonsense apart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X4Z1lLUMfw

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee -2 points 6 days ago

If George was alive today he'd be begging people to vote against Trump.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

No he wouldn't, and the video I linked explains clearly why. Maybe watch it and try to comprehend what he's saying there.

[-] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

If 5% of the general election popular vote for POTUS, knowing that the candidate cannot win, still voted for the Green Party platform then what effect would that have upon the Democratic Party platform?

On a five point difficulty scale this is a two. The test gets way harder than this.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a tea trolley.

Right now the reality is the Donald Trump is going to take office because a lot of people didn't vote for the alternative.

All the 'what if...?' games in the world isn't going to change that.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Make your 3rd party an arm of the dems. A coalition of sorts

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

If you're saying that the Left should vote for the Dems I agree.

I'd love to have Bernie as President, but our side dropped the ball twice and failed to get him nominated.

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