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That would require them being capable of critical thinking, and anyone willing to vote third party clearly lacks in that department.
I live in a state where my vote literally doesn't matter. Think about that, genius.
Cool. Not everyone does and advocating protest voting can have an effect outside that of your individual vote. Your move, genius.
Critical thinking would lead you to vote third party.
What they lack is a specific piece of electoral information about first past the post voting: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
Combine the understanding that america--deeply unfortunately--uses first past the post voting with critical thinking, and it's obvious third parties are, for now, a waste.
But if you wrongly accuse them of not having critical thinking skills, they'll use their critical thinking skills, which they have, to assume that you are not a good source of information, even though you're encouraging them in the right direction.
No. Critical thinking skills preclude even entertaining the notion of voting third party, because critical thinking skills would lead one to comprehend how FPTP and the EC work, and realize the all-but-guaranteed mathematical impossibility of electing a third party president.
Anyone who proudly proclaims to vote third party is one of the following, without exception:
In any of these cases, I wouldn’t trust these people with a butter knife let alone a ballot. But that’s not my call, so I call them out for what they are.
E: forgot a word
In my experience it's usually number 3. They're not at risk under a Trump administration (or so they think) so their hands are clean, no matter how damaging their actions are. Throwing Gazans, Ukrainians, LGBTQ, women, minorities, etc under the bus while claiming a moral victory for "punishing the Democrats". And no amount of explaining this to them will make them realize this, because they just bury their heads in the sand, call you a genocide lover, and start blabbering about "Blue MAGA" or whatever is the new buzzword of the week.
Yeah, like I said, critical thinking is in short supply for that crowd.
That seems like a very roundabout way to say that in the present in the US, critical thinking leads you to not vote third party.
Sure, but we all give them that specific piece of electoral information in nearly every thread.
your video reaches the wrong conclusion. values voting is the only way to stop party consolidation. the problem is strategic voting.