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user
Nah hard pass on copmalla.  The people didn't pick her, the corporations did.  They can keep her.
assistant
At the Presidential level, a vote for Third Party is a wasted vote at-best and a Trump vote at worst.

Other than if you don't care if POTUS Donald Trump wins the Election, I don't know why anyone who would otherwise vote for the Democratic Presidential Nominee would instead vote for anyone else.
user
No vote is a wasted vote and the only vote for Trump is a vote specifically for Trump.
assistant
The United States has a 'first pass the post' system. Unless a third party can actually win the election, either the Democrat or the Republican is going to win the election.

'The lesser of two evils' is still preferable to the greater of the two evils.
user
The point of voting third party in the presidential election is to get a preferable candidate to 5% of the popular vote to make the party eligible for federal funding. The change won't happen overnight, or even over one election cycle but voting third party is the only feasible way to get out of the two party state. Voting for "the lesser evil" of those two parties is just voting for nothing to ever change.
assistant
The problem with that is that federal funding for a Presidential Election is effectively almost nothing compared to the billions spent by each major Party during a Presidential Election.
user
You have to start somewhere. As I said it's not going to happen in one election cycle. Furthermore, a stronger leftist third party could force the Dems to move further to the left to win back voters they lost to said third party.
assistant
And what if the Fascist Republican party decides to just cancel all future elections after Trump wins in 2024?
user
They won't. The Republicans are awful sub human trash but this is just blatant fear mongering.
assistant