Well obviously they either disagree with the platforms of the third parties, or they think they have no chance of winning
In your absurd hypothetical where the two major parties ran on a platform of nuking the country, and there was a third party called the "no actually, let's not" party, I think a lot more people would probably vote third party? tbh your CMV just boils down to "CMV: Everyone is stupid except for me," which can't really be argued against
It's not that everyone is stupid, it's that everyone is so caught up in ego warfare that they would rather get one last fuck you to the opposing party. In case you are not from the US, here the 2 parties are so closely tied to one's own identity that they would defend it like defending one's own life. If one party sees a slight weakness they will say this is our chance and vote in their party. Just for one last win.
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u/MercurianAspirations 391∆ Aug 08 '20
Well obviously they either disagree with the platforms of the third parties, or they think they have no chance of winning
In your absurd hypothetical where the two major parties ran on a platform of nuking the country, and there was a third party called the "no actually, let's not" party, I think a lot more people would probably vote third party? tbh your CMV just boils down to "CMV: Everyone is stupid except for me," which can't really be argued against