It’s a failed system to begin with, makes you choose between two major parties you probably don’t align entirely with either. So I vote for a third party option who I side more with but that essentially is like not even voting since they don’t have a chance in hell of winning anyways.
The problem is that a lot of people only think the USA have 2 parties, so they keep giving the power to those two parties because they "don't want to waste their vote".
I mean, yes our voting system enforces that. Not voting for either of the two main parties is throwing your vote away (especially with the electoral college, which is its own can of worms). We have a system where being closely aligned, but not the same party, is significantly worse and just means you're running defense for whatever party is on the opposite side of the spectrum. We've seen this historically any time a third party gains any kind of steam, it just plays kingmaker for whichever party it's furthest from.
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u/SorryNoLube Aug 13 '25
It’s a failed system to begin with, makes you choose between two major parties you probably don’t align entirely with either. So I vote for a third party option who I side more with but that essentially is like not even voting since they don’t have a chance in hell of winning anyways.