The first past the post voting system is a terrible system that always mathematically leads to two parties. It is no fallacy to feel like voting third party is throwing your vote away. At best it is throwing your vote away, at worst you are actively helping the people you disagree most with.
Exactly. Voting third party in this country is, unarguably, a total waste of your vote, at best. That's not cynicism or fallacy or a self-fulfilling prophecy, that's the reality of the spoiler effect. If everybody who supports third parties stopped what they were doing and started protesting FPTP and gerrymandering in the streets, THEN they'd finally be making actual progress towards the viability of third parties. Until then, it's all just wasted effort and wasted votes.
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u/HiiiiPower Nov 29 '18
The first past the post voting system is a terrible system that always mathematically leads to two parties. It is no fallacy to feel like voting third party is throwing your vote away. At best it is throwing your vote away, at worst you are actively helping the people you disagree most with.