Give the Demopublicans the FINGER
Politics piss me off. Our government pisses me off. Bush is an asshole, Kerry is a douchebag (and contrary to the point that site, I'm not going to vote for him). The thought of 4 more years of Bush really scares me, but I know we won't really be better off with Kerry in the White House. You shouldn't pick a candidate because he's the lesser of two evils, rather you should pick based on what you believe. I fully support Michael Badnarik and the Libertarian party because they believe in what I believe in; that we Americans are smart enough to run our own lives. We may not line up on every singe issue, but his ideas and policies are a breath of fresh air compared to Demopublican (or maybe Repocrat sounds better) tyranny. Our country needs more than two major political parties and the only way we're going to reach that goal is by supporting third party candidates. Anyway getting to the point, Badnarik was interviewed by the Slashdot readership. Here's what he had to say:
Slashdot | Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers
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We'll never get more than two political parties by supporting third party candidates. Support a third party candidate if you want to have two different parties (say, the Libertarians and the Democrats or the Libertarians and the Republicans), but if you want to have more than two major parties we would need to make some serious and fundamental changes to the constitution. Duverger's Law tells us so. Read all about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Moral of the story: if you live in a swing state, it doesn't make tactical sense to vote for a third party for President unless you think that the third party is going to get a plurality of the popular vote in that state (or, in Maine or Nebraska: in your congressional district). If you live in Texas, though, you have the luxury of making a statement in any way you want, since your vote has no marginal influence on the Presidential election. If we really want to see a multiparty system, we first need to either convince one or both of the major parties to support amending the constitution to change the method of election or we need to convince a majority to support a party that supports such an amendment.
Posted by: Doug McClean | October 27, 2004 08:22 AM