Obama's Thoughts On Not Voting & Voting Third Party

Allow me one last post on this topic:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-third-parties_us_57ebce9be4b0c2407cdaa0a7?section=&

 

lol

Does anyone really care what that puppet says?

 

Many people dislike the two party system and the only way to change it is to vote for third party candidates (assuming their policies are in line with your own). Eventually, through a number of election cycles, third party candidates will start to gain traction and become legitimate contenders for the presidency.

However, this is NOT the year to take that chance as we need to keep the office out of the hands of a buffoon. Like her or not, Secretary Clinton is the best option for our country.

So, I agree with President Obama.

 

I voted this year in the Scottish elections, for the first time in 15 years (excl. the referendums, by that's different*) but the Scottish system is more complicated, based on some complex system of proportional representation, you get two votes. It's not quite first choice and second choice, look it up. I don't claim to fully understand it myself.

Anyway, I spoiled my first paper because despite the fact I support Scottish Independence I don't support any of the main parties, including the SNP. On my second paper, they call the "peach ballot" I decided to vote for Tommy Sheridan and the Solidaroty Party, about as outside an outside party you can get. I voted for Tommy because he speaks out against the war on drugs and calls for the government to legalise cannabis, something none of the other parties apart from the Lib Dems and the Green have done much, and he is the only party who supported Brexit (asides from UKIP, obviously)

The SSP, who Tommy used to lead, I would have considered voting for, but I get the sense they are selling out a bit, like the SNP have done.

Sheridan called for the SNP supporters not to waste their peach ballot on a 2 vote for the SNP, to spend it wisely and vote for Solidarity, or at least the greens. However, the SNeePle couldn't help themselves and so they all wasted their 2nd vote on wee Jimmy Krankie and her party of tory bootlickers thus allowing the tories and labour to gain a significant number of seats that they didn't really deserve.

Solidarity got no seats at all. Well done stupid people for not voting for the outsider, even when the vote would have counted in some way.

If I'd had a vote in the US elections 4 years ago I would have voted for Roseanne Barr, even though everyone knew she would never win.

Third party votes are wasted, but that's because democracy is the form we are told is democracy isn't democracy, it's a pantomime. I'm pretty sure it's already decided what way the vote will go before every election and referendum. It isn't very hard to imagine how the people in power could rig an election, and considering the number of people voting who is going to question the result? We can trust the government, right?

Only people did question the first Scottish Independence result, and they still are, and Scotland still wants some fucking answers!

The number of people I know who want independence compared to those I know who want to remain in the United Kingdom doesn't really tally up with the result, and most of the people I know also say that.

** with referendums you get a commensurate say on a specific issue, in general elections you don't any say in fuck all that subsequently happens, even if the party or candidate you voted for wins

 

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Spoiler

 

dude is making me want to actually vote for trump. not that it makes a difference...