Coccygia wrote:The Black Forrest wrote:I don't understand your new age edgy hipster talk.
What part of "brain-damaged bitch" did you not understand?
Freiheit Reich wrote:Watch the language. I dislike Hillary but we don't have to use foul language to talk about her.
I know I don't have to use foul language to talk about her. I assure you it was purely voluntary.*
Why can't you vote for another party if you dislike the 2 candidates?
Because it would be absolutely pointless. There is no chance of any Third Party candidate getting anywhere or being anything other than a spoiler. Might as well not bother to vote, frankly. My state is so solidly blue (of which I am nevertheless glad) there really is little point in voting in a Presidential election anyway.
*Thanks a tip of the old bowler to Sir Winston Churchill.
Being in a predictable state is actually your safest opportunity to vote for a third party candidate. First and foremost, the only reason that third parties even bother with running a presidential candidate is not that they think they'll win, but because of a nuance in the rules that means that if they get a certain percentage of the vote for a presidential election they become eligible for funding and automatic ballot slots, so it makes all of the more winnable smaller local and state level seats easier for them to contest.
But even if you think that getting the 5% or whatever it is for the threshold for funding is realistic (and you may well think that as it's a hard nut to crack), in a solidly blue or red state a vote for a party slightly more to the right/left of the party that you would normally vote for would, if done with enough other voters of similar inclination, indicate that they cannot take your vote for granted and force them treat you like a constituent even though they are more than likely to win regardless.
Now, all of this probably would be dismissed as "Yeah, well, but you have to get others to do it too..." which is sort of like saying in order to breath you have to suck in air, as any voting action requires a number of people to vote the same way...that's pretty much how voting works.