Missed The Point, I Really Wish The USA Had More Than Two Major Political Parties...

I hear what you are saying loud and clear, and am in full agreement regarding our choices. However we do still operate like it or not within the 2 party boundries. Third party candidates are just unable to put the funding together at this time needed to get their message out. It comes down to the $$$. Social media may change that over the next few cycles, who knows, and possibly we get highly qualified 3rd party choices, not just someone better than the rep/dem offering.

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I will say this, as a salesman one thing I have learned in the last 35 years: people loose the ability to make a decision when given more than 3 choices.

That is a very good point, but I think it might happened some time in the near future.

why aren't the other party candidates allowed to participate in the debates? :-/

All I know is that third party candidates tend to only have an influence in some states, while the democrats and republicans get state wide coverage.

we have smaller parties in the UK but we don't do debates...there was a call for them last year but i don't think they'll take off here. we have "party political broadcasts" here where all the parties are allowed ten minutes or so prime time on the BBC. not sure i would like to see ours in debates :-/

Your house of commons is some good shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhpXhxP-WU

the problem with our house of commons is they always sound like they're about to burst into a monty python routine :-p

I totally agree! XD

They needed to reach a measurable amount of support based on poles prior to the debates to be included. Neither independent candidate met the threshold.

However those thresholds are set in agreement with the two dominating parties who don't want other voices to be heard.

from what i see here in the UK it doesn't sound like the polls areto be trusted!

I tend to agree, the nepotism runs deep between the media and the politico. Husbands and wives of execs working on campaigns, former Whitehouse press secretary passing himself off as a network new man. The television news media has shit all over where it eats.

we're getting as bad over here. bbc was always a bit suspect but the independent channels are just as bad now. and now they're trying to squeeze RT out too!

I don't know that squeezing out Russian Television is a bad thing.

Pretty soon we may be watching Al Jezeera exclusively...

RT's bank in the UK have frozen their account. But the bank is owned by the UK Govt. RT is one of the most popular news sources in UK today and the UK public aren't buying the banks excuses and we're certainly not buying the Govt.s hysteria over Russia and Syria. So, the govt wants them silenced but it's not gonna happen.

It's a good alternative news source. If you haven't watched it, you should give it a go for a few weeks. Be warned tho'...it takes a bit of getting used to having news presented to you like you're an adult :-p

You should always try to balance your news sources, I've watched every news channel i can over the last few years...but given up on them all. I've watched RT for 5 or 6 years now, it's pretty consistent....and it's all news, no hysteria!! I can't even tell the difference between CNN now and Fox 10 years ago!

A "threshold" devised by a BIpartisan (not non-partisan) committee that's interests lie in a 2 party system. Having 2 of ANYthing is the illusion of choice. Like when your parents said "Broccoli or Cauliflower....you choose"

But hey!!! The sun is still shining and the seas aren't rising.

Lol....yeah it's weird right?

LOL

This template is a tough one to use. ;)

What we really need is no parties. Parties encourage and incentivize division, mudslinging and corrupt tactics (like rigged gerrymandering) in the government while packaging complex political issues into simplistic little boxes for the dumb.

Most vote for whoever out of party loyalty. They don't know the issues or plans. They know the word 'Republican' or the word 'Democrat'.

Abolish parties and you eradicate lowest-common-denominator pandering, inane schoolyard rivalries and force candidates to campaign not on party labels but on their fully-elaborated positions while forcing voters to actually learn those positions because they can't just vote by party label anymore.

I agree.

I think that will just make him even more happy.

I do too (the title).

This election is like choosing what to eat for dinner. And if you don't want to choose becuz you do not care, everyone inmediatly gets angry and say over and over that you are wasting a important vote. Just let me go!

Meanwhile, we travel to the lands of the USA were we see people fighting over who they think is the better candidate.

It's been a while since this template went to the front page! :D

I will not vote for a candidate I think is going to tear the country further apart, either by their actions, or because the other party despises them so much. Right now I'm torn between Johnson and writing in Amy Klobuchar who is nearly my perfect candidate.

I say Amy Klobuchar sounds like the better choice. ;)

They won't exactly be major for much longer. They're giving us some of the worst presidents in US history in the same era. So therefore, let's all just vote third party, at least we'll have the right to say that tried to change America for the better.

Agreed.

I'm pretty sure the turnout for this election will have the highest turnout for third party candidates.

But it's very unlikely they'll win, we're technically in the lead, you just watch, Hillary's gonna be deleting electoral votes...

You guys came 'TO SERVE MAN'.