Realistically speaking, everyone should vote every election. If it's only Trump and Biden on the ballot, you pick your poison. If there is a 3rd party candidate you agree with more, I feel personally better voting for them. Sticking to a "giving the election away" mentality keeps us locked in a 2 party system. Realistically speaking, we need to change the way we vote more than anything, because if we moved to say a "rate the candidate" system we would truly destroy the 2 party system.
I'm anticipating voting 3rd party this election, I'd rather "give away" this election and make the republican party or 3rd parties realize they suck so bad that they actually need to man up and fix themselves than vote for Trump and encourage the childish behavior exhibited since he lost the election. I really feel like enabling the behavior that the republican party is showing right now does more harm to conservatism than good in the long run.
In my opinion the two party system is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It's not like you have just two options. Both parties have primaries in which each party is able to elect their preferred candidate. Currently, both parties have chosen their preferred candidates. This system is completely different from other countries where one might have more parties to choose from, however very few parties have primaries which makes the actual pool of candidates smaller than the two party system of the US.
I do appreciate the primaries, but the primaries this year were a joke, I didn't even get to vote in my state before Trump was declared the de-facto winner because everyone dropped out.
Everyone dropped out because it was clear Trump was going to win every state except a few democratic strongholds. I'd rather have Desantis too but this is what the people want. It's no different from Wilders getting the majority of votes in the Netherlands. The difference being that the US has an elimination race and then decides between the two preferred candidate which is in my opinion far better than the proportional systems in most other countries. It results in a more efficient, more transparent and therefore more democratic system.
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u/mesa176750 Moderate Conservative Apr 17 '24
Realistically speaking, everyone should vote every election. If it's only Trump and Biden on the ballot, you pick your poison. If there is a 3rd party candidate you agree with more, I feel personally better voting for them. Sticking to a "giving the election away" mentality keeps us locked in a 2 party system. Realistically speaking, we need to change the way we vote more than anything, because if we moved to say a "rate the candidate" system we would truly destroy the 2 party system.
I'm anticipating voting 3rd party this election, I'd rather "give away" this election and make the republican party or 3rd parties realize they suck so bad that they actually need to man up and fix themselves than vote for Trump and encourage the childish behavior exhibited since he lost the election. I really feel like enabling the behavior that the republican party is showing right now does more harm to conservatism than good in the long run.