Of course, two weeks to the election: “vote third party!” May as well be saying, “Throw away your votes and make sure that you have even less say in the outcome of this election than most people already have, and let the even smaller minority decide for you.”

Third parties should be valid choices, but they aren’t. Not in a First Past The Post voting system. They are never the sound choice when FPTP always leads to two diametrically opposed major parties. IIf you want third parties to be relevant and good choices beyond local elections, advocate for voting system reform, not for people to throw away their votes out of dissatisfaction with the status quo. For now, we live in reality, and we have to vote accordingly.

Edit: Also, way to say “I’m not saying they are the same. They are different… I’m just saying their differences are essentially negligible” pffft. Ok.

Ah, not creative enough? I mean, you could even just answer the question and not even make it about me, just the actual answer. That would do it.

Dig in deeper instead of just doing a Google search.

Write a bunch of comments explaining how everyone else is wrong instead of just putting a few words in a search box to fact check yourself and realize you’re wrong.

This is how Trump happened.

You realize you, as a contemporary human, have literally the entire sum of human knowledge in your pocket, right? You don’t have to be an idiot everywhere. You could just, ya know, try to function like an autonomous person.

Edit: I see what happened here. Didn’t retort, just down voted and moved on. What I wrote is fiction to them. They cannot accept defeat because doing so means admitting flaws, and that’s the last thing these people will ever do.

Our political landscape is the culmination of a continued lack of investment into public education combined with a severely undermanaged mental health epidemic…probably brought on by wearing our brains down to nubs with mindless drone work and recycled media in the endless quest of satiating capitalism. The polluted water and food probably isn’t helping much either.