“It’s a waste of a vote to support a candidate who cannot win.”
Is there anything wrong with this assertion?
You hear this often when folks like Ron Paul or Ross Perot are being discussed. I find it quite funny, however, that McCain and Gore both lost, yet the people who voted for THEM don’t consider those votes to have been “wasted”. It’s only seen as a “waste” when it threatens to keep the preferred Party from winning.
This rhetoric is fallacious, and is intended to continue to support our unconstitutional “two party system”.
The real problem with “wasted” votes is that they are not accompanied by a sufficient number of like votes to elect the candidate in question. Some would have you abandon your true political ideology and cast your vote with them just so you can have a “victory” by voting for a candidate you don’t like. Some victory that is!
If only those who are willing to vote third party would figure out that losing is not a sustainable strategy for success, then perhaps they would launch and sustain the type of paradigm-changing education movement that would be required to bring about actual reform in our nation. But instead, they vote, lose, and sing the blues until it’s time to vote again.
Here’s a radical thought for you: If it’s not working, try something further!
But alas! Millions will support a “Romney” or a “Gore”, not because they are good for the country, but merely because they are better than an “Obama” or a “Bush”. Perhaps arsenic IS better than strychnine, but….
So to all you folks who so faithfully support lawless and tyrannical candidates, the blame for our continual demise is on your shoulders. You seem, however, not to care…and especially in your celebration after a “victory” at the election booth.
What a stupid and short-sighted way of political life. You folks are so utterly satisfied with the smallest conceivable distinctions and reforms. All this talk about “get back to the Constitution” (on “both” sides) and yet nobody stops to figure out just how far a journey that would be. And why not? Because at the end of the day, it’s just talk.
If you really cared about the Constitution, you’d be incensed not only at what the Government is doing, but at what the VOTERS are doing.
