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Oh, and Kamala Harris being “not Biden” doesn’t automatically make her a great, or even a good, candidate for president. This just elevates her from NPC to main character — for better or for worse. I still pray that a vigorous multiparty system with real choice will emerge in my lifetime. Amen.

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You and me both. What’s crazy is it seems to me when I have conversations in the wild that A LOT of people think we’d be better off with more than 2 choices. But yet many of those same people won’t take the necessary step of actually voting for a 3rd party to begin the process of showing the world it’s actually possible. The last candidate that even came close was Ross Perot when I was like 5.

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For even more context ... since 1920, only four third-party candidates have won at least one electoral vote in U.S. presidential elections. And the most recent of those was more than half a century ago, in 1968, when racist demagogue George Wallace — representing the American Independent Party and campaigning on a platform of segregation — won 46 electoral votes by carrying five states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Hell, at this point, I'd take as a starting goal: Let's see if one or more non-racist third-party presidential candidates, individually or even collectively, can win at least 1/3 the popular vote in any state. Perot, in 1992 in Maine, came closer than anyone since Wallace, but Perot and other third-party candidates combined still only won about 30.85% of the vote that year in Maine. I don't know how we overcome the belief (stigma?) that voting for a third-party presidential candidate is throwing away your vote — or even tantamount to not voting at all.

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For sure. I have always leaned heavily libertarian, so I’ve done my fair share of trying to convert people. As ive gotten older, I’m more moderate but still would love to see just like a regular American dude without any political background. I’d vote for them in a heartbeat. I hate when people call Trump that. He’s far from it. I hate the “voting 3rd party is a waste” people. It will always be a waste unless we actually do it and get a 3rd party federal funding for a campaign. I like to remind people that not voting is also a vote. It’s just a vote not to participate.

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