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Originally Posted by Halx
A person is smart. People are dumb.
Electioneering is social engineering on a group of people. It's easier to sway many at one time than it is one by one. People who vote for the 'popular' choices are simply being sheep.
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Now I get it. You can only be smart and special if your choice is unpopular.
Once people (who are dumb) make a choice, you, a person (and therefore smart) now are forced to choose a less popular option even if you disagree with it. So a smart person is a single sheep forced to choose an unpopular choice by the dumb herd. I wonder if all the dumb, popular-thinking sheep know how they manipulate the smart individual sheep into throwing away their votes on someone who cannot win.
I feel sorry for all those smart third party voters who may get cursed with popularity some day if significant numbers of people (now dumb) start to join them. I'll bet they all felt like idiots when Lincoln won as a third party in 1860. Or when the third party got almost 20% in '92.
I proudly joined the sheep about an hour ago for several races and voted Libertarian in several others.