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        Rumors are that America is a Democracy where more than two parties are allowed to run. Though many appear to disagree with that notion.

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        Dr Jill Stein got arrested protesting for Palestine. She’s most likely getting my vote unless RFK’s poll numbers continue surging and it seems like he could actually win.

        There’s no way I’m letting this country make me believe my only choice is between two racist octogenarians. That is not democracy.

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          Jill Stein is great. Turns out she’s Putin’s puppet, siphoning votes from the left.

          She’s also failed to get a single Electoral College vote out of the 270 needed to win, in her five Presidential Election career. You honestly believe that she’ll somehow get half the nation this time around?

          https://ballotpedia.org/Jill_Stein

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            That kind of thinking is exactly what’s led us to picking “the lesser of two evils”. Also the RepubDems have put up the weakest candidates in modern history. If there was ever a time for a third party candidate to win the election it’d be this cycle. Have we ever seen a third party candidate this close to the election getting almost 20 percent in multiple states like RFK is?

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              I voted Green Party in the 2000 election. I’m trying to prevent others from making the mistake many of us made that year that directly resulted in Bush getting elected. That election led to the wildly disproportionate response to 9/11, resulting in almost one million deaths. I protested that travesty, and I’m a New Yorker.

              The reason Democrats keep putting up moderates is because they keep losing. The mentality of “showing them a lesson” by abstaining is exactly what makes them move right to capture more of the active voters. If Democrats maintained control for an extended period, the primary would become the new election, and they’d be forced to move left to capture more of the active voters.

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                  My vote personally? No. My advocacy? Possibly. The Floridian votes for Nader directly resulted in Bush’s win.

                  Since you understand how the Electoral College works, please tell me why you see any point in voting third-party when you know they’ve never earned a single Electoral vote, let alone the 270 needed to win an election?

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                I’m torn, in one respect that outcome kept me out of the military because I could see right through their bullshit… Wtf does Iraq have to do with 9/11?

                But on the other hand, that decision kept me out of the military and I was planning on joining the Air Force after highschool in 2004… Now I’m just a completely worthless factory schmuck.

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                  I should’ve joined the Navy. I’d be pretty well off now if I learned how to fuse fiber optics in the 90s.

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              Have we ever seen a third party candidate this close to the election getting almost 20 percent in multiple states like RFK is?

              Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 got 27.4%, George Wallace (the segregationist) in 1968 got 13.5%