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Originally Posted by glatt
I understand, but there is no viable third option today.
As a practical matter, the best we can hope for is gridlock.
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I propose that, since
either of the two main parties we presently can choose from do not provide us with a viable choice, but rather simply project a contrasting "image" to the caricature of their opponents, a vote is wasted on
either of them, and would be better spent on chipping away at their
collective stranglehold, regardless of any immediate results, which we sould not be getting
anyway, from the choices which are presented to us. I personally believe that the time to break from the current system is past overdue. Complacency will only be perpetuated if we continue to play along. Every voting cycle that we send the message "we accept the status quo" the worse it gets.
The standard media message regarding third party voting is that we will be "throwing our votes away" . . .
I ask you: what the hell do we get for our votes
now? It's insane to keep bouncing these two goliaths off of each other.