It's that magical time again!
Time is closing in for the citizens of America to go to the polls and vote for their choice for president.
And now the opinion pieces will begin for those people that vote outside the two party system.
Some may choose not to vote....and there will be those that will ostracize those people that by not voting they are helping elect this slug over this......and if there is no choice that represents their principles then I say do not vote just because some lay-about wants to chide you into doing something you do not want to do.business as usual no matter the party.
Then there are those voters like myself that could possibly vote for a third party we will not vote for one of the two parties that will do nothing for the country....I do not buy into the popular BS that by voting for a third party you will elect this candidate over that.
Either one of those unpopular options is a personal choice and as such everyone needs to just STFU.
You see my vote is just that...MINE and no one has the right to question what I do with it.
For one reason that I vote other than the two majors.....I feel they have f*cked up our democracy.....
The most compelling theory based on historical patterns of democratic decline is that hyper-polarization cracked the foundations of American democracy, creating the conditions under which a party could break democratic norms with impunity, because winning in the short term became more important than maintaining democracy for the long term.
In order for democracy to work, competing parties must accept that they can lose elections, and that it's okay. But when partisans see their political opposition not just as the opposition, but as a genuine threat to the well-being of the nation, support for democratic norms fades because "winning" becomes everything. Politics, in turn, collapses into an all-out war of "us against them," a kind of "pernicious polarization" that appears over and over again in democratic collapses, and bears a striking similarity to what's currently happening in the U.S.
Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy
It is an older story but it still rings true today.
The theory today is that if there is not a good choice in the two parties then the voter should just hold their noses and vote for the least offensive.
Sorry I do not subscribe to this lunacy.
If one has principles then one should vote for the person that best represents those principles....no matter the party.
To recap.....your vote is your vote please do not piss it away on the 'hold your nose' vote.
I Read, I Write, You Know
"lego ergo scribo"
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