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In reply to the discussion: An open letter to folks like myself who cannot in good conscience vote for Obama [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Some people think things keep getting worse with choosing the lesser of two evils.
For those people, they have to ask themselves "how long are we going to keep doing this?" How long can we keep choosing between two parties that agree on so many important issues, when things keep getting worse, and both parties are committed to implementing slightly different versions of the same policies? Why are there so many urgent issues that are not discussed at all in mainstream politics.
If someone is really convinced that both the Democrats and Republicans will screw the people, one slightly worse than the other, at some point it could make sense to start working outside the two-party system. This could be to try to scare one of the two major parties into representing those issues better.