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-square144fedilinkarrow-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-square144fedilink
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
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