06-05-2015, 11:55 PM
(06-05-2015, 11:42 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: People want to vote for that Libertarian or Constitutionist but are afraid their vote will not mean anything so they vote "Close Enough" for the Republican.
Vote for your candidate in the primaries, then in the general vote for the best of the two, or the least worst (which is usually the case). Not that what you said doesn't apply to the primaries, but a "protest" vote in the general will never accomplish anything. Ross Perot took 19% of the popular vote in '92 - hugely significant, and in the following elections it meant nothing.
And for all the whining and complaining about the two-party system, I see no reason to believe multi-party systems in Europe work any better.
The real problem in the US is not the two-party system or money, it's that you have to be a "politician" to be elected. America doesn't want "politicians", but they're too lazy and stupid to elect anyone else.
