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sc94597 on 05 May 2016
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fatslob-:O said:
sc94597 said:

I will admit my evidence is mostly anecdotal, but having seen probably hundreds of people take the political compass (of various ideologies) most fall in the bottom half (in either quadrant.) Very few fall in the top-left, and a decent amount, but not the majority fall in the top-right. 

If the U.S had a non-partisan democracy you'd have a point, but as it stands now the primaries are a very limited selection. 

Most Americans belong to neither the Democratic nor the Republican party, so I don't know if the bolded applies. 

The approval rating for congress and the president are also pretty abysmal.

The point of this thread though was to tell people who do agree with the third parties to take the leap. Voting for somebody you don't agree with won't help your goals come to fruition. 

You don't need a no party system to win an election. You can write in a candidates name instead but why aren't many doing that ? 

Whether or not they belong to those parties don't matter. It's who they vote for that counts and if they choose a nominee from either party then their implicitly backing them up no matter what ... 

I still think third parties are a waste of time. If people wanted to change something then do it from within those two big parties. Donald Trump has changed the republican party forever despite having next to zero political experience and similarily Bernie Sanders was trying the same thing with the democratic party but to no avail ... 

Like I said, they are miseducated/uneducated. How many people know or think voting for a third party or unaffiliated candiate can work?

Many people have tried. Donald Trump is an exception because he is a populist who changes his views on a dime and knows how to tap into anti-political correctness and protectionist views of Americans to remain popular. Most people are not populists and don't do that. For everybody else, the establishment acts as a barrier.