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These parties can never win an election, and their thirst for ballot access only hurts their ideals. Their fervent supporters and endorsers seem to piss off everyone around them while they tilt at windmills.
You call it tilting at windmills, but I call it fighting for real change—if these parties weren't a threat to the status quo, they wouldn't be so furious about their presence on the ballot!
they are not a threat to the status quo, they only spread their loser status around. Then guess which party is making policy?
It baffles me that you see voting for them as “fighting for real change”.
Because he or she doesn't really see it that way. If these parties really wanted real change, they would be fighting for local and state elections that they could actually win, and enact change from the bottom. They would not be aiming for the presidency which they literally cannot win. The only possible real world effect of their candidacies is to tilt the American elections to the fascists and allow them to take over the USA which result in, among other horrors, the genocide of the Palestinian people that this poster claims to support.
By the way, the individual you are responding to has spent that last month or so, since their account was created, posting and commenting thousands of times in support of third party candidates - about once every twelve minutes or so. Their commitment is really quite... breathtaking. In that time they have been engaged with by many posters, including myself, who have explained it all to them quite clearly. They either simply refuse to believe it or are incapable of understanding. Make of all that what you will.
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Awww, thank you!
OR… I just haven’t changed my mind, and I’m voting for who I want, as is my right. Just like you’re voting for who you want, and that’s your right too. :)
Whether it "baffles" you or not, I’m still not voting for your candidate.