• _core@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    Third party candidates are rarely voted into office and certainly not at the presidential level. The Rs and D’s have made it so 3rd party candidates are essentially non-viable outside small population areas. The voting system itself needs to change to something like ranked choice for a 3rd party to have a chance.

    • A Cool Dude@lemmy.mlOP
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      20 days ago

      The parties have been sabotaging any means of the voting system to change. So you are saying that something that is up to the parties need to change which they will not allow to change, such that you can vote third party. That to me just sounds like an excuse to not vote third party, like when people say that they will only do something when an event that they know won’t happen occurs such that they can have no accountability.

      • Mx Phibb@reddthat.com
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        20 days ago

        This sabotage is why I keep saying that third parties need to be realistic and stop focusing on the Presidency, instead focus on the jobs that make the laws, the ones that can remove the barriers for third parties while demonstrating why they’re the better party.