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Re: Why Vote Third Party?
« on: July 13, 2009, 01:10:48 am »
Quote from: Schizo on July 12, 2009, 10:52:26 am
Or you could vote for the candidate you think is best regardless of party, since purposely voting 3rd party isn't much better than voting for the main parties. Then again, I hate the party system - so purposely voting for any particular party just because it's that party, or it's not another party just seems like a voting sin to me.

The thing to remember is that it costs more in favours to get to any position in a main party. It's not about deliberately voting against a foxglove because it's a foxglove, it's about voting against a foxglove because foxgloves are poisonous. A main-party candidate may seem to run in line with your own political beliefs, but unless yours also run in line with the special interests that have pushed him this high, you will not get what you voted for.

Every ad you see endorsing a canditate is a piece of that candidate that's been sold to special interests. "Always vote Third Party" is a simple way of excluding most of these sold-off individuals. Being main-party entails something that isn't desirable that being Third Party need not entail, and that is having been bought and sold to special interests.
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