tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post3546929068000806507..comments2024-03-13T09:26:30.351-04:00Comments on PunkPatriot.com: Throwing Your Vote Away?The Punk Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02671149620207872986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-10842676960554697522012-09-13T14:59:51.189-04:002012-09-13T14:59:51.189-04:00The only way that the "you're throwing yo...The only way that the "you're throwing your vote away" logic fails is if the two main-party candidates are LITERALLY identical and equally bad, and not as rhetorical hyperbole. In which case, you don't have a vote to throw away, and it doesn't matter who you vote for anyway.<br /><br />If the system is so corrupt, so totally influenced by corporate money that democracy is dead -- and I'm not saying that isn't so, mind you -- then merely voting for someone other than the Ds and Rs isn't going to fix it. There's no minimum number of votes required for the winner to take office. Bill Clinton won only 43% of the vote in 1992, with 19% going to Ross Perot, but he still was legitimately elected president according to the law of the land. If things are really that bad, it's time for revolution. Nothing short of that will suffice.<br /><br />As for breaking the two-party lockhold, the only thing that will do that is proportional representation at the level of Congress. A winner-take-all by-district electoral system demands a two-party system as the only viable strategy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06515817930457694455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-5046143711057497992012-09-06T23:55:21.186-04:002012-09-06T23:55:21.186-04:00Hell yes! I'm voting for Gary Johnson. Our pol...Hell yes! I'm voting for Gary Johnson. Our political system can't take this two party garbage anymore.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06709819197399605398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-75099409574369320262012-08-21T17:22:37.580-04:002012-08-21T17:22:37.580-04:00Funny, I just found this blog today, Vote Third Pa...Funny, I just found this blog today, Vote Third Party: http://vthirdp.blogspot.com<br /><br />They seem to be non-partisan & balanced in covering all the (major) third party candidates. Pretty cool.<br /><br />I'm telling my liberal/progressive friends who've removed their Obama Goggles to vote Jill Stein. And my more far right friends to vote Virgil Goode. Pimping for Gary Johnson full time, though, of course... :)<br /><br />Just worked his booth at Seattle Hempfest... a lot of people are tired of the duopoly & open to voting third party.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16738458625410607087noreply@blogger.com