Please Be The Rise Of A Third Party

[Stoked]

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/gary-johnson-cpac-get-me-into-presidential-debates/


https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/24/libertarian-gary-johnson-double-digits-race-agains/


I'm hoping this election will see the rise of a third party and break the strangle hold the Ra and Ds have on our lives.

 

[b_line]

I'd like a third party, but libertarians and gary johnson seem less like a serious third party and more like a niche market.

 

[Stoked]

I'd like a third party, but libertarians and gary johnson seem less like a serious third party and more like a niche market.

But right now they are the best chance we have to get one. If they break that mold than it makes it more likely that a new party emerges. It's not so much about the libertarians as it is a third party. They are just the most likely candidate.

 

[fishonjazz]

But right now they are the best chance we have to get one. If they break that mold than it makes it more likely that a new party emerges. It's not so much about the libertarians as it is a third party. They are just the most likely candidate.

This.
More choices > less choices imo regardless of who the new candidate is

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

This.
More choices > less choices imo regardless of who the new candidate is

I doubt Trump could have gotten this far if not for the humongous number of choices when this whole things started. So there's a case where lots of choices actually hurt us. I wish somehow people had been allowed to vote for all of the candidates they liked instead of just one. The result would be that the candidates who have wide appeal would rise to the top no matter who else is running.

 

[Gameface]

When I was a teenager I dreamt up and idea that I think would make a multi-party system much more likely.

You get two votes, one for a candidate and one against. So you could vote for whomever you liked the most and then vote against Trump. Every "against" vote cancels out a "for" vote. Boom!

 

[b_line]

You could call it a trump vote.

 

[Bronco70]

I voted third party in the last two presidential elections. I am absolutely done with the shenanigans of the two major parties.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

There's a reason that third parties have never taken root in this country. The winner take all nature of our electoral system discourages third parties and makes it difficult for them to thrive. A more likely result, which actually has historical precedence, is the demise of one party giving rise to a replacement party. For example, the Federalists and Whigs were once major parties but later fractured and disappeared.

Personally, I'd be pleased if this were the fate of the Republican party, assuming it is replaced by a sane party actually committed to governing as opposed to purity tests and pandering to wingnuts, that offers a grown-up alternative to the Democrats (not grown up relative to Democrats but grown-up relative to the current state of the Republican party).

 

[Harambe]

But right now they are the best chance we have to get one. If they break that mold than it makes it more likely that a new party emerges. It's not so much about the libertarians as it is a third party. They are just the most likely candidate.

A democratic socialist party seems to be pretty viable. Sanders isn't a democrat, he's just running on their ticket.

 

[Stoked]

A democratic socialist party seems to be pretty viable. Sanders isn't a democrat, he's just running on their ticket.

Right on. I'd be happy with that party rising up. I'd like to see 4-5 tbh.

 

[b_line]

Me too. But they would have to change the way they elect president.

The whole reason there are two parties right now is because the president is selected by the house if no single candidate wins a simple majority of the electoral college. This basically guarantees that only two parties will succeed.