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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be voting for Claudia de la Cruz. I hope enough people vote 3rd party or abstain that it sends a huge wakeup call to both parties. No more octogenarian candidates, no more funneling billions into a foreign apartheid state actively engaging in ethnic cleansing, no more taking the American voters for granted. I will not be held hostage by the Democratic Party simply because Trump is the alternative. [/quote]

There is no "wake up call" to be had by voting for 3rd parties. The US is democratic republic with a strong executive branch. We are not a parliamentary system that rewards smaller parties with power.

In a winner-take-all system like the U.S., 2nd place is the first loser. 3rd parties are simply....distractions?

In a winner-take-all system, game theory would tell you to vote for one of the two major candidates that you [u]dislike[/u] the least. That's the vote that will maximize your chances for 4 years of acceptable outcomes.

3rd parties do not structurally work in the United States under our Constitution. It is inherently biased toward two big tent parties. If you look back in US history a new major political party emerges ONLY when one of the two existing major parties collapses from within and dissolves.[/quote]

And the status quo will be the status quo until it's not. You don't get something different by doing the same. If both of these parties suck, and their candidates suck, and their governing outcomes suck, why do we keep giving them our votes? Why would anything change so long as we do?[/quote]

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