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memphisdawg
Growing old on the VS
(146.18.173.103) on 9/23/2016 - 3:02 p.m. says: ( 263 views
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"That article is a complete steaming pile of horse#badword#. So, if I do not want to vote for either" |
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Message Replied To ========== A protest vote is a vote for ego not conscience. There's no such thing as a protest vote: "Throwing away your vote on a message no one will hear, and which will change no outcome, is sometimes presented as 'voting your conscience,' but that's got it exactly backwards; your conscience is what keeps you from doing things that feel good to you but hurt other people. Citizens that vote for third-party candidates, write-in candidates, or nobody, aren't voting their conscience, they're voting their ego, unable to accept that a system that they find personally disheartening actually applies to them." Some points from the article: The reality of voting is this: (a) I prefer Trump; (b) I prefer Clinton; or (c) I'm going to let other people decide - I don't care which one of them wins - I wash my hands of the whole thing. A protest vote is a vote for (c). Third-party candidates almost never receive more than 1 vote in a hundred. Only one finished second, Teddy Roosevelt, who had already been President twice. The votes he took from the Republican, Taft, elected a Democrat for the first time in decades. Votes that went to Ross Perot may have cost the Republicans the 1992 election. The votes that went for George Wallace in 1968 swung the election between Humphrey and Nixon. Ralph Nader took enough votes from Al Gore in 2000 to give the election to George W. Bush (with help from the U.S. Supreme Court). On the self-defeating futility of protest votes, or non-votes: The lousy reason I didn't vote in 1968.
these two utterly flawed candidates but do not just buck up and vote for Hillary, I am somehow hurting someone else? The condescension of the Hillary supporters has officially gone off the charts. |
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That article is a complete steaming pile of horse#badword#. So, if I do not want to vote for either memphisdawg 9/23/2016 - 3:02 p.m.
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