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Originally Posted by skizziks
This might belong in the conspiracy forum, but I was thinking about the election and how the Libertarian Party (or any third party really) just didnīt have a chance.
They didnt have a chance mostly becuase, from what I saw, people saw voting for a third party as a waste of a vote, throwing away a vote.
I thought about Ross Perot, getting a whole bunch of folks excited about a third party candidate, and then at the last second jumping ship, effectively tarnishing the idea of a third party candidate. Now when you mention a third party, everyone talks about Ross Perot.
So, is it possible, maybe, that Perot deliberately ran, got a good following, and then abandoned just to help prevent any third party candidates from possible future success? Could he have been an agent of the current regime? To me, Dems and Repubs are pretty much the same big corrupt rich white guy (yes, Obama is a rich white guy) good old boy system.
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Skizziks, I don't think he was an "agent" of anyone. If anything, I think he was more of a loose cannon amongst the obscenely rich.
I actually hoped that folks in the US would see the % of vote he got, and start diversifying their votes. I am well and truly against the two-party system. I think it breeds a black and white, I'm right you are wrong, us against them mentality, without room for degrees of difference in opinion.
I know that I'm on a different end of the political spectrum from you three. I think your voices are important to balance my end of the view of things. I'd love it if in a three or more party system the Gov't HAD to compromise a bit to get things done. It would not only water down extremism (both sides), but allow for introduction of new ideas (sort of).
The feeling that I seem to detect from you guys in the U.S. when your candidate loses is, more or less:
My guy didn't win, I'm fucked. Let's fight everything they do tooth and nail!!
That applies to both sides.
Both parties NEED this system, so they play the me-no-your-turn game. They are pretty well guaranteed power within each decade no matter what they offer up as candidates/policies.
To those who say it's a waste of a vote, I strongly disagree. I actually think it is honouring your founding Fathers by evolving as a democracy, expanding it.
Well, that is my two cents, as a Canadian, fiscal "conservative", social "liberal", and all around dude who just wants things that work, regardless of where it comes from.