Official 2020 US Presidential Election Thread

[mutantsushi]

Bofferbrauer2 said:
An option is an option, no matter their chances in the end.

The casual demonization of anybody who votes "3rd party" tells you alot of "2 party" system and how it is "defended". I remember Bush Jr's FL "win" where after DNC rolled over to accept result "for sake of system" (i.e. 2 party system) despite all Dems believing it fraudulent... They still went around and demonized 3rd party voters to blame for result. It's easy to say non-proportionate/non-parliamentary system isn't conducive to multiple parties, although that rather ignores the many many jurisdictions where that does exist (of course, "exceptional America" can't be compared to normal countries).

But it's not even about that, everybody knows every election is hyper-polled to the Nth degree. If there is any reasonable chance of losing "because of 3rd party vote", well isn't it Dems' responsibility to do something about that? Like arrange pre-electoral pact... offer 3rd party the Vice Presidency, power ministries like State and Justice, choice of Supreme Court nomination, maybe cede some Senate/Congress races to them, in exchange for withdrawing from Presidency race and publicly supporting and campaigning for them. That would result in de facto coalition government... But of course, they don't WANT that, so prefer to lose to Republicans and keep things "safe" in 2 party system.

Of course a 3rd party could potentially refuse to cooperate like this, but obviously nothing of the sort is remotely considered by Dems. It's always weird how US so casually calls other countries it doesn't like "dictatorships" when they fairly often have MORE relevant, elected in office political parties than the US itself does. But again, "exceptional America" can't be compared to other countries, it is morally superior etc "by definition" (per 18th century slavers with property requirements for voting etc etc)

EDIT: same->sake (type-o) Last edited by mutantsushi - on 17 September 2020