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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I would argue the entire problem is the self-defeating mentality that the D vs R choice is the only choice. It's in fact the population believing that - in itself - that results in the poor election outcomes for third parties.

I'm not going to read the rest of your response, because you might as well be telling me that the person with the most points isn't the one who wins the superbowl. Between that and what little I read of your second paragraph tells me you either don't understand the system, or you don't understand game theory when one side is always going to vote for their guy regardless of how criminal or openly fascistic he is.

It isn't a self defeating choice that got us here it's literally how the system was designed. You say it wasn't like this 30 years ago, but I question how much you remember of the bush elections, because it's worse, but this was the natural progression with a party who is pathologically against actual governance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I’m not going to read the rest of your response,

Then don't reply.

or you don’t understand game theory when one side is always going to vote for their guy regardless of how criminal or openly fascistic he is.

Humans are not robots. Anyone can vote for anyone. Their mindset at the time of voting is the only thing that determines their vote. Do notice how fixated people are on attacking third party voters with almost no influence over the election, instead of... 77 million? Trump voters, who decided the election. Have you tried unbrainwashing them at all? Like, tally up all the time you spent trying to influence people's votes - what percent was aimed at Trump voters?

It isn’t a self defeating choice that got us here it’s literally how the system was designed.

It resulted from the design of the system + our society, but those two things are not mutually exclusive. Logical error.