• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    So how about we go for not evil and see how that goes?

    Lol.

    Care to elaborate?

    Actually, don’t bother. THERE IS NO VIABLE THIRD PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

    Why?

    1. Because no 3rd party is even putting in the effort.

    2. Voters aren’t taking any 3rd party seriously by voting for them in local/state elections to get more than ZERO of them in Congress.

    So your idea of voting for not evil is throwing in your vote behind some irrelevant 3rd party that is probably also corrupt (Jill Stein) and standing absolutely, positively no chance of winning so we end up getting the most evil option.

    Crossing your fingers and hoping for magical powers to make a 3rd party viable is not something us adults are interested in. Electing what is undeniably the better party and then reforming that party by primarying the bad actors out is the realistic approach that adults are interested in.

    • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      as far as i know, the prohibition party got no congressional seats, but they got a constitutional amendment.

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      2 days ago

      There’s been a not evil candidate in every primary that actually happened recently (historically speaking). The DNC however cannot abide anything that is not evil. They would happily let the world burn to stop it getting any amount better.