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If the Dems voted for the 3rd party candidate instead we wouldn’t be in this place. Thanks a lot, Obama.
Please explain to me how the third party vote would have swayed the election if everyone chose D instead.
Exactly. Trump won Michigan in 2024 by a margin greater than all the third party voters combined.
Don't forget the protest and ignorant voters! Literally happened on election Day: "I don't like how Biden/Harris is and will be handling Palestine so I'm gonna vote Trump" and "What happened to Biden? I don't know who Harris is, but I saw Trump on TV so I guess I'll vote for him."
While you may think that 3rd party voters were the reason Trump was elected that's simply wrong. Criticizing those who chose to vote third party instead of our current system without rank choice is not helpful and not beneficial to the public.
Well if it is a matter of life and death vote democrats yes but then just dont sit on your butt the next for years (same goes for the maker of this meme), support alternative movements, spread the word, volunteer if you can. Yes republicans and democrats are not the same but I am convinced that more than %50 of the democrat senators will have no qualms about completely changing their supposed ideologies if it is required to keep their seats.
This sentiment has never made sense because libertarians steal more votes from replublicans than greens do from dems.
As a resident of a state where Democrats are going to win, regardless of what I do, a state whose tiny insignificant number of electoral votes don't matter anyway, fuck you.
The important thing is to be more pissed at the Democrats for not being good enough than you you are at the Republicans for being evil. There is nothing worse than a western liberal, not even the pro-trans-murder party
While that sentiment may be the most frustrating, even if every third party voted against Trump, he still would have won. If even 10% of those voters went to Trump, he would have even won the popular vote. Polling suggests that non voters were about evenly split, so a stronger turnout generically may have done nothing.
The result was mostly due to a very boring reason. Inflation was high so whoever in office gets the blame. Similarly Trump lost mainly because COVID sucked, and anyone would have lost (his response did suck, but we saw that there was no such thing as a sufficiently good response).
People like to imagine some big political cause for good or for ill moving the voters, but by and large it's mostly about how comfortable or uncomfortable they are in the moment to vote for or against the status quo of the moment. But those folks are "just voting" while a very loud minority talks up their "superior" choice to not vote for a lamestream candidate. They speak loudly, but they didn't have enough votes this time to make a difference. They did in 2000 (technically Gore did have the votes when the data was in, but third party would have made it a decisive Gore victory).
Found the Republican trying to divide the left.
I would be perfectly happy voting third party. I'm also incredibly aware of the risk of splitting votes under the current system. It happened, as an example, in a special election in Hawaii a while back when two Democrats each refused to back out of the race and the lone Republican took office with a plurality that was far from a majority. If there were a runoff, ranked choice, or similar system in place Charles Djou wouldn't have stood a chance because few would choose him over the other Democrat.
Start with changing the voting system, then we can talk third parties.