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-18 points

The system doesn’t care if people don’t vote as long as two party system keeps going.

Only way to fight this is third party vote to deny the regime legitimacy

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FPTP voting systems and third parties will never coexist.

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The could with ranked choice voting. But until that’s a thing, you gotta use your brain and assess whether or not your first choice has a shot and maybe go with another choice instead.

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-12 points

The point is not to win for the third party and don’t even need to vote for the same third party.

The point is to protest the system until the two party system loses legitimacy and is reformed.

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9 points

So destroy your democracy to make third parties viable in your democratic system?

There might be a flaw in this plan.

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8 points

How does voting for a dictatorship run by trump bring this change about? (If you don’t vote for one of the two, you voted for the winner, hate the system not the messenger)

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5 points

Unfortunately it lost legitimacy already, and all that happened is fascists consolidated power. It will never be reformed into functioning by the people capable of wielding power within it.

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7 points

Klaxon sound Wrong!!!

The way to fight this is by voting and participating locally. Third parties are getting elected and alternative voting methods already exist in a few locations around the U.S. you can help by voting in more systems like that and maintain the candidates and systems you like locally. If we could get more people like you to participate locally we could actually get something done.

You’re problem is you want to live at the end of history and unfortunately for you we’re forever in the middle of it. Local action is the most effective and relatively slow. Instead you want to enable the larger of the two fascists that will inevitably be elected and then throw up your hands when it doesn’t work, blame everyone else, and never take any effective action locally.

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4 points

This is it. Big change takes time and the wheels move slowly. This isn’t some simple issue that doesn’t cost anyone power like abortion rights or gay marriage, it is a game changer and has to slowly come into being without scaring the old people running the show.

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My advice doesn’t prevent anyone from voting in their local elections… In fact the two can be used together for the more zealous types.

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Your advice only makes the world worse by enabling the worse fascists without the groundwork needed to make your protest vote meaningful.

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