> If you vote for the lesser of two evils its not like your going to benefit.
Did you read Daniel Ellsberg's AMA interview on Reddit the other day?
In it he was actually supportive of those who had voted for Obama based on the principle of the lesser evil, explicitly invoking the Duverger's Law mentioned in a sibling comment.
Either way let's face it, the natural area a third-party split could occur at this point is within the GOP, not the Democrats, so a national concerted effort to vote outside the two-party bloc will do to the Republican candidate what Ross Perot did to Bush Sr., and what Ralph Nader did to Gore.
To fix the "lesser of two evils" problem you have to fix how the voting process itself is done first.
It's going to be done like any other major political change has happened, comfortably inside of that two-party system. You have to mobilize political pressure to effect the change at all, which is the same thing you'd need to do for success with a third-party strategy anyways.
But hey, please feel free to do what you want, a real libertarian third party is the progressives' wet dream right now.
Did you read Daniel Ellsberg's AMA interview on Reddit the other day?
In it he was actually supportive of those who had voted for Obama based on the principle of the lesser evil, explicitly invoking the Duverger's Law mentioned in a sibling comment.
Either way let's face it, the natural area a third-party split could occur at this point is within the GOP, not the Democrats, so a national concerted effort to vote outside the two-party bloc will do to the Republican candidate what Ross Perot did to Bush Sr., and what Ralph Nader did to Gore.
To fix the "lesser of two evils" problem you have to fix how the voting process itself is done first.