• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I don’t vote for third party candidates because they have yet to offer one that has been tested in the crucible of actual real-world politics.

    And predictably, they all vanish into obscurity between elections leaving us to fend for ourselves while they cash in on paid dinners and speeches.

    Not a single one of them has ever walked the walk.

    When they offer someone up that isn’t just promising bullshit that can’t ever work in the real would, I’ll definitely make a strong consideration to vote for them. Until then, I’ll continue to vote for realistic goals over lofty ones.

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      8 days ago

      Every 4 years, the Jill Stein emerged from her cave for a few months to talk about how bad the Democrat candidate is before retreating back into darkness.

    • BargainMithril@lemmy.orgOP
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      8 days ago

      Do you have any examples of a third-party candidate doing this? Third parties run candidates all the time.

  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I hope we don’t see that in Canada. We definitely looked that way last election but the yellow party had a pretty weak showing and the red party took a lot of votes to prevent the blue party from winning. Hopefully things reset a bit next election.