AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoTrying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.message-squaremessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1804
arrow-up1804message-squareTrying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square142fedilink
minus-squareLad@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·13 days agolemmy.world going hard against third parties over the past few days, what has spooked them?
minus-squaremholiv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·edit-213 days agoThe potential of Trump winning. Unless you live outside of the U.S. or are very privileged a Trump victory would only be devastating. In a first past the post system like the U.S. has, doing anything but voting for Harris is in fact supporting Trump. CCP Gray actually put out a good video a while ago explaining why voting 3rd party in a FPTP system only hurts your interests. In a place like Germany where you have proportional voting none of this applies and you should 100% vote for the best party. https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo?si=y2NtQ2K6g9GkaNwM
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·edit-213 days agoThe primaries are over. The risk of Trump is too high and people spreading 3rd Party ideas right now many be trying to demotivate progressives from voting for Harris. I mean, I’m not a big fan of Harris, but I’ll still be voting for her over Trump.
lemmy.world going hard against third parties over the past few days, what has spooked them?
The potential of Trump winning. Unless you live outside of the U.S. or are very privileged a Trump victory would only be devastating.
In a first past the post system like the U.S. has, doing anything but voting for Harris is in fact supporting Trump.
CCP Gray actually put out a good video a while ago explaining why voting 3rd party in a FPTP system only hurts your interests.
In a place like Germany where you have proportional voting none of this applies and you should 100% vote for the best party.
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo?si=y2NtQ2K6g9GkaNwM
The primaries are over. The risk of Trump is too high and people spreading 3rd Party ideas right now many be trying to demotivate progressives from voting for Harris. I mean, I’m not a big fan of Harris, but I’ll still be voting for her over Trump.