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Every day I am forced to confront that the the Democratic Party won the White House and Congress in 2020 and instead of doing the smart thing and ending the filibuster, packing the court, and going scorched Earth on the GOP which, mind you, had just tried to overthrow the election, they kicked back and proceeded to do absolutely nothing of note except cut a blank check for the most televised genocide of the last 30 years.
A disciplined party could have un-fucked everything trump did in the span of a few month, but they chose not to. They chose not to, and now we're all paying for it.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Ok.
Still voting Democrat because...
They are not Republicans.
No 3rd party is even remotely viable and no 3rd party is doing the work necessary to become viable. The last 3rd party candidate for president received half of a single percent of the total votes cast, proving that no 3rd party can win a presidency, or even come close.
So until a 3rd party actually starts winning local/state elections (they aren't) and gets more than ZERO members in Congress, I'll keep voting Dem.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Vote for the third party then, you absolute dunce. "No one votes third party so neither do I!"
Grow a spine.
Don't accuse him of not having a spine, he's grasping the game theoretic arrangement of things quite decently.
In the US, to propel a third party to power, one of the mainstream parties has to utterly lose its position. If that's going to be the Democratic party at this point of history, the US will be a dictatorship (and civil war will ensue soon). Why? Because Trump will have time to change the system to be president-for-life.
The US electoral system is a two-party system. The root cause: because a region typically has one mandate, and the winner of that region takes it all. To make third parties viable, a proportional electoral system is needed (e.g. a region has 10 mandates, distributed to parties accordig to their percentage of the vote).
When should one apply pressure to make third parties viable?
When it's calm. When there is not a wannabe dictator on the horizon. It could have been done sometime in the Clinton / Obama era, but not now. Now is a "fasten your seatbelts" period of time.