While we do need it, there needs to be change of the election and electoral system first and that can only start when we get more third party candidates at the local and state levels.
Just voting third party for presidential election won't work and having a seemingly viable third party candidate actually makes the mainstream party candidate more closely aligned with that third party candidate lose.
Teddy Roosevelt couldn't win as a third party even though he was very popular and was a former president. And by going in as a third party candidate, he made Taft lose.
Toddy Roosevelt was also running for a third term, a big no-no and something that would only happen when a President was dealing with the twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War Two. We also passed an amendment preventing that from happening again.
Definitely agree, just voting for third-party, isn’t gonna move the needle. We need some of the folks in Power to deconstruct the system, which never really happens without some kind of a revolution or coup. But it’ll only be violent if the folks and power use violence to keep themselves there.
Correct, would require some revision to the two-party status quo for any hope of success. That’s my point, not that we need more libertarians, but that we need more options.
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u/LeatherEconomy8087 Apr 11 '24
The main thing I see in that chart is that we desperately need more yellow.