• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    dems will say you supported the right, reps will say you supported the left, all the while you supported neither

    The fundamental core of the GOP strategy is to disenfranchise voters. When you vote for a hopeless third-party candidate you are disenfranchising yourself - i.e. doing the GOP’s work for them.

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      9 months ago

      Yet unlike the left saying there’s no difference, the GOP sees votes for third parties as unfavorable to them anyway.

      They don’t want the socially liberal, fiscally conservative libertarian party to grow and steal their votes.

      There’s three levels of support you can have for either party. 1) Giving them a vote. 2) withholding your vote 2) withholding your vote, and voting for their main competition.

      Acting like a vote for third party, and a vote for the other side of a the dichotomy are the same just wrong. There would be a big difference between millions voting third party vs switching to the other side of the aisle.

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      9 months ago

      Aren’t people tired of voting for a party because they dislike the other one though? You’re disenfranchising yourself by doing that. I just want to vote for a party because I actually like them.