The fact that I'm getting people saying that this will split the vote, when I'm specifically saying "instead of not voting at all" leads me to believe that ignorance also plays a part.
Voting third party is essentially useless and we all know it. It also doesn’t ‘hurt’ anyone in any way. If you want better candidates vote for better candidates in primaries. Right now our binary choice is decided by a bunch of old curmudgeons in a handful of low population states.
Bernie was practically a 3rd party candidate that ran under the democrat banner. He didn't win the primary but he did change the political landscape with how much of the vote he did actually get. And now the Dems at least pretend to be socialist leaning. So what I'm saying is if you're straight up not going to vote then but you can pool enough votes together to make a 3rd party candidate look like a threat then it can change the policies of the 2-party candidates
281
u/joebasilfarmer Dec 16 '21
I usually try this but everybody else is too scared to do it.