• madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      If you think that’s how elections currently work in the United States, nothing I can say will help you.

      For a 3rd party candidate to be viable, there would need to be enormous system changes or a very successful write in campaign.

      I would love for other candidates to be an option, but that’s currently not the case.

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      6 months ago

      By all means agitate for a better voting system. But until you have something other than FPP voting third party will do the opposite of what you want. This is a well known paradox of FPP, it has been well studied

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        6 months ago

        Im voting for a better voting system. Jill also has ranked choice voting as a campaign platform. I think you’ll have a better chance trying to convince Trump supporters to join Zionist Biden’s campaign than me, and with much better returns on your goal of not electing Trump.

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          6 months ago

          In FPP voting far left supports the RW candidate. That’s the paradox and that’s just math. Your feelings on the matter don’t change that unfortunately