“I just wish there were a viable third party”
“I just wish a vote for a third party wasn’t a wasted vote.”
“I just wish a vote for Gary Johnson wasn’t a vote for Barack Obama.”
“I just wish a vote for Jill Stein wasn’t a vote for Mitt Romney.”
Tonight, Larry King is moderating the “third party” debate in Chicago. Watch it. Read about it. Engage it. Then, two weeks from today, vote third party. Not because your third party candidate will win the presidency, but because winning is a matter of scale. Did you know that a 5% showing for a minor party in a federal election grants that party $20 million in federal election funds for the next cycle?
That’s huge.
Frankly, it’s scandalous and patently criminal that anyone on the ballot in as many states as these candidates are aren’t permitted to debate Romney and Obama. If ever Jill Stein were right about anything, it’s that America’s two major parties are both wholly corporate and morally bankrupt in the national setting.
Now stop complaining and go vote for someone who doesn’t think drones are a great idea.
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- Opinion: Free Jill Stein, Third Parties (wnyc.org)
- Democracy Debunked: US Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Arrested. (nsnbc.wordpress.com)
- Jill Stein Is Mad As Hell (seattleweekly.com)
- Green Party candidate Jill Stein: “90 million people have no one to vote for” (salon.com)
- Is Green Party candidate Jill Stein crazy, or are we? (bangordailynews.com)
- Previewing the third-party presidential candidates debate (washingtonpost.com)
- Mitt Romney Agreed With Barack Obama So Much Last Night It Was Shocking (businessinsider.com)
Dear Christopher Cocca, I just want to say three things. 1) You are making a brilliant point in your article. 2) Thank you for referring to my article on the Debunked Democracy and for reading nsnbc. 3) I wish you, your compatriots, and sadly I have to say – the rest of the world – good luck with your choice between cholera and the plague.
Warmest regards.
Christof Lehmann
Posted by nsnbc | October 24, 2012, 1:25 amthank you :)
Posted by Christopher Cocca | October 24, 2012, 2:02 amThank you for writing this. I’m really trying to stay positive with this election but it’s getting harder and harder. I fear for our country if it continues down the 2 party path. One of the 3rd party candidates has my vote…just not sure who yet.
Posted by Sara Jane | October 24, 2012, 9:11 amYou linked to the wrong Gary Johnson! ;) Otherwise, this short post is great and thought provoking and convincing.
Posted by Raquel P. | October 24, 2012, 12:00 pmThank you, Sara and Raquel! (I fixed the link). I feel especially passionate about this this year…and we have to start sometime. If not now, when?
Posted by Christopher Cocca | October 24, 2012, 12:48 pmPreach it, Brother!
Posted by Raquel P. | October 25, 2012, 2:19 pm