WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.

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      Ya know, it’s not always democrats versus republicans…

      Until everyone stops voting for this bullshit two-party system, it’s just going to keep being dems and repubs pointing fingers at each other.

      (This- is in no way me providing any endorsement, or affection for whatever candidate is in question. I know nothing about the person).

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        In the current fptp system it has to be. Until ranked choice for president and proportional representation for the house then usually the left will shatter. The republic strongest point is they all vote under one big group even if they disagree internally. All splitting the vote will do is empower that “team”

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          Until ranked choice for president

          That wouldn’t change anything. RCV still produces a polarized two-party system.

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        This isn’t going to happen until the majority of the country implements ranked choice voting, so that third party voting isn’t just throwing your vote away. As long as we are in the current system, third party voting is pointless.

        Focus your efforts on getting ranked choice adopted. It is the key that will actually unlock the ability to vote for third parties.

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          Ranked Choice Voting doesn’t make third parties viable, either. It uses the same counting method as our current system (tally up people’s first-choice preferences) and therefore suffers from all the same problems, like vote-splitting, spoiler effect, and center-squeeze effect. You can’t fix the problems of FPTP by adding more rounds of FPTP. You need to allow voters to express opinions about all of the candidates and then actually count all of those opinions.

          If you want third parties to be viable, you want real reforms like STAR Voting, Condorcet RCV, or Approval Voting.

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          throwing your vote away

          Until everyone stops thinking that way- the same cycle will repeat every 4 years.

          Democrats and republicans blaming the person who came into office before them, for all of the countries problems, followed by a lot of election promises they will never keep.

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            It’s pretty much an objective fact that voting third-party (especially in a swing state), is indeed “throwing your vote away”. It has been well studied and well documented.

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          Now three guesses which party is trying to make RCV illegal & already have in Florida.

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    ultimately I will be voting for the best candidate, regardless of party. My litmus is ubi. no ubi, no vote. if the “spoiler candidate” is the only one supporting and pushing ubi, then I will vote for them. If you don’t like that, then endorse ubi and I might vote for you instead.

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      Issue is that once they realize UBI is what needed to the votes, they will promise it and not delivery like with everything else since FDR.

      Political process is a waste of time. Vote with your money and feet. It has more impact.

      We need ability to give no confidence vote, I guess voting third party would work like that