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gergroy said:
It is a waste of a vote though. Is a vote for a 3rd part going to change who gets elected? No, it wont. You are essentially not voting by voting 3rd party, at which point, how is it different from staying home? Also, the US is a republic, not a democracy. |
Gergroy, you become part of the political money machine when you say it's a waste of a vote. The republicans and democrats own all of the election commisions and make up their own electorial rules/laws in order to keep their opposition invisible. To protest that is to vote against them. But it's more than just voting against them in the end, it's voting for the one person you think would make things better than anyone else. That's the reason to vote, and it's something that people forget about. The public is brainwashed into thinking that there can be only one of two people elected. And if you believe it, then I'm sorry but you're just another pawn that the Republicrats control. You've been purchased. You need to wake up, and realize that there are far more than two choices. And those two choices will keep things the same as they ever were, and you should vote for Obamney. That's your right. But don't tell me what my vote is worth when you don't know any better.
Kantor said:
Honestly, I was kind of disappointed by the first freeandequal debate. Stein and Anderson agreed on literally everything, the questions asked were such that Johnson agreed too, and Virgil was kind of borderline insane, but at least he was sincere. It was more a contest of who could yell "I AM BETTER THAN OBAMNEY" the loudest than an actual debate. Hopefully the second one can be more of a debate between the candidates present, and as such will hopefully focus on issues where Stein and Johnson disagree. |
I don't know about you, but at least I finally got to hear candidates talking about things that I both care about and agree with (aside from Mr. Goode). The debate functioned more as an introduction of the candidates to the public. It was a very short period of time to say as much as they could, and I think they realized that by quibbling over things that time might be wasted. I hope, as well, that on Tuesday the FreeAndEqual debate #2 has them going at each other in order to showcase their respective differences. And I'll put it this way - The Obamney debates bored me to death after 5 minutes, while FreeAndEqual kept me watching the whole way. One set of candidates was speaking to me, the other set was not. I'm just glad that these 3rd party debates are happening at all. These sorts of opportunities are new, and it shows that public interest in these parties has come a long way.
