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FPTP voting systems and third parties will never coexist.

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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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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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Unfortunately it lost legitimacy already

As long as people participate in the two party cicrle jerk, they will continue to rule as they see fit. Just because you and I mock them online, doesn’t reduce their legitimacy.

If we have a situation where D 25 R 25 third parties combined 50. That’s the type of loss of legitimacy I am talking about.

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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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So destroy your democracy

Is this democracy in the room with us right now?

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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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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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