2020 Presidential Election

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(05-24-2020, 12:03 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Two things that have to happen for thrid parties to be considered viable.


1.  Election reform.  Under our current "Winner-Take-All" system with no campaign spending limits no third party will get a foothold.

2.  There has to be a third party that isn't just the extreme elements of the existing parties.  For example it seems that Libertarians believe in extreme amounts of government de-regulation, and Green Party believes in extreme levels of environmental regulation.  Neither of those are reasonable options for me.

I don't disagree with most of this, but if 3rd party candidates are such wacky nuts then D's and R's should gladly let them debate and their own insanity could be their undoing.  Rather, I can't help but feel like the Green party is going to make us all ride bicycles and Libertarians are going to privatize everything and dismantle the government the same way all Democrats are going to take our guns and give our money to illegals and terrorists...it's just an extreme view perpetuated by the suppression of a fair platform and access to information. 

Or maybe they are nuts...but shouldn't we get MORE nuts options?  We're looking down the barrel of two in 2020.  Meh.