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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to remember the green party votes haven't worked in the last 5 presidential elections. I threw away a vote on them when Obama had a lock on his second term.

Here we are a couple decades later and the green party has done zero to affect major change in the US. They did likely get Hillary fucked, so thanks for that 4 years of hell I guess.

Brain worm was your best chance this cycle and he's been paid off already.

Really...seriously...what will voting green get you here? You can't win, you can't get federal funding, if you break 2% I'll be amazed...

What's the point of a green vote when Harris is so closely aligned with your platform?

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah. My first vote was for Bill Clinton in '92. I voted for him again in '96. I saw no difference between Gore and Bush and didn't vote in 2000. We got the utter shitshow that was Bush 43, but even then I still voted third party in some elections.

No more. Team Red is now Team Fascist, and either Red or Blue will be in office unless and until Team Green or Team Yellow or whatever you got can take more than half of their political ideology's votes.

That's the real problem here. Third Parties cap out at 10% of the total vote, or about 20% of their ideologies' parties vote share. They can't win THIS party's primaries. How can I expect them to win the country?