I can still vote for independents. No way I'm voting for either of those two.
Feel free but that's pretty much identical to not voting.
Yeah most likely, but we might get a super cool great wall of america adorned with 3d animated images of eagles and american flags waving in the wind.
All of that is the persona part of things. In the end, both will be inevitably serving the same clockwork mechanism. The voting is simply a freak show to entertain the masses.
My own country is being dragged into the same sewage pit at the moment. The bipolar separation is already done: Republicans vs. Conservatives, both eventually serving the creamy layer of society with their intrinsic ways of dealing with the rest. We only lack the presidency system. And Tardogan is on it right now. He will bark and bite like a rabid dog until it is done.
Feel free but that's pretty much identical to not voting.
What do I personally gain out of choosing one option out of two I almost equally despise? Voting for either would be accepting that this vote somehow represents a decent share of my opinions. That would be a total travesty, and the only real way to waste my vote, probably worse than not voting at all.
As for being identical to not voting, the elections are the only opinion polls that actually matter. People from both major parties look at how the independents are doing. Look at France, a country that if anything has a weaker bipartite culture but still, the rise of FN has fundamentally changed how the two main parties position themselves. Even if FN never gets into power, they already created deep changes in french politics. Strong independents are among the only way to get politicians from major parties to do the things you want them to do.
This view that elections are there to choose a majority is overly simplistic. Don't forget, politicians usually play a long game, and winning that long game involves more than anything else to know where the wind is blowing. Elections are the best way to tell that.
pretty much identical to not voting.
Well, between Clinton and Trump, instead of not voting, I'll write in or go independent.
And no, it's not
If everyone actually voted for who they wanted and ignored party lines, elections would look quite different.
A very common sentiment in the US is "voting for the lesser of two evils" and it's something I've found most will admit when asked about it.
Even if your third party guy doesn't win, it can make waves, and that's good enough for me. Keep 'em on their toes.
It is virtually identical to not voting.
All it does is deny your vote from both democratic and republican party. Same as not voting.
True if everyone ignored party lines it would look much different, but it would look pretty much identical if those same people just didn't vote. UNLESS an independent candidate actually won, which isn't really going to happen at all... Sadly it's a money game and candidates who run independent rarely have the funds to compete with republican/democratic parties regardless of how much better that independent candidate is over republican/democratic front runners.
If you vote independent and you see an independent candidate voted into office in your lifetime I will eat my hat.
Candidates in future elections may try to adopt bernie's stances
Either way,America iswe all are fucked.
Honestly I dont see why a lot here hate Clinton as much as Trump.
Pls explain :C
Vote Bernie Sanders
Because she changes her opinions year after year.
Did anyone notice how they looked like normal humans some time ago, but now they turned into lizards?It's called aging.
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It's called aging.
I would say that's ok, that's what politicians are there for, representing. Changing positions doesn't matter as long as it doesn't occur between the campaign and what you actually implement if you win.
Now, why I wouldn't vote Hillary is the email thing, her campaign funding and SJW nonsense. SJW nonsense also my main problem with Sanders, some of his economic policies being fairyland fantasies notwithstanding. At least he doesn't make his whole campaign "Vote for me because I used to have a vag" like Hillary does.
Why are you thinking so much about it? It is not like you can vote.Some people just enjoy political discussion, be it from their country or others.
Why are you thinking so much about it? It is not like you can vote.